“[This tour is] a poetic journey full of rare insight into the life of a man who’s come to represent the ghettoized contingency of the City of Angels.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d – Tanja M. Laden, Flavorpill<\/em><\/p>\n “Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s LA” focuses on Bukowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great passions: writing, screwing and Los Angeles. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take in the canonical locations of his life and myth: the Postal Annex Terminal where he gathered the material for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Post Office,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the De Longpre apartment where he briefly experimented with marriage and fatherhood, one of his favorite bars and liquor stores, and many other spots. Along the way, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll explore the people and ideas that made up the warp and weft of Buk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rich inner life. This Esotouric bus adventure is hosted by Richard Schave.<\/p>\n The tour spans Bukowski’s personal city, from Skid Row to once-genteel Crown Hill, to Bukowski’s favorite East Hollywood liquor store, the Pink Elephant.<\/p>\n Esotouric has made its name with true crime bus tours (Black Dahlia, Pasadena Confidential) and explorations of literary LA (Raymond Chandler, John Fante, James M. Cain). Now they turn their creative attentions to Bukowski, the prolific poet, novelist and screenwriter whose rough-hewn tales of boozing, wild women and rotten jobs never obscure the deep vein of sweetness and hope that runs through all his work. In one of his finest poems, he described this as a bluebird he kept caged, and that bluebird is been represented in the Bukbird, a pale blue version of his beloved alcoholic crow character, represented by a logo created by cartoonist Tony Millionaire exclusively for this tour. The Bukbird is available on T-shirts<\/a>, beer coasters<\/a>and fine art prints<\/a> by plasticmuse.<\/p>\n Press clips:<\/p>\n LA Weekly interviews Charles Bukowski tour host Richard Schave <\/a>to compile a list of L.A. sites that were important to the writer.<\/p>\n Slake wonders<\/a> if the Charles Bukowski tour is “‘Fawlty Towers’ on wheels.”<\/p>\n Spike Magazine digs <\/a>our literary tours.<\/p>\n Novelist Anna Stothard explores<\/a> the hidden gems of Los Angeles for the London Guardian, including our Bukowski tour.<\/p>\n Annenberg News Radio covers<\/a> our Charles Bukowski tour in a video\/slideshow.<\/p>\n Marco Mannone on the Charles Bukowski bus:<\/a> “Four hours after we departed, the tour drops us back off at Philippe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. This is a terrible way to simplify the tour, filled with so much wit and insight into not only Bukowski, but lost parts of Los Angeles."<\/p>\n Girls Gone Wild digs<\/a> the Charles Bukowski tour.<\/p>\n