30. By the time booksALIVE 2006! comes around my book will be old news. But literature is news that stays news. By then it might have found its legs, and the initial print run, 1A, of 150 copies, sold out, and had to be reprinted. That would be different. That would be news.

31. Tomorrow, I have to drive to Fort Walton Beach, for a workshop on a grant I am applying for, to prevent violence (domestic and sexual) against women. Writing it will keep me off the streets at night, for the next few weeks.

32. I guess I'll print up 32 Short Reviews of BUKOWSKI NEVER DID THIS and send it to the out-of-town guests, the visiting writers, who are coming in for booksALIVE 2005! Or either I will carry it out there February 12 and hand-deliver copies, introducing myself. If they ask me to autograph my pamphlet, I will sign it, "Fraternally yours...."

Jack Saunders was invited to participate in the book festival booksALIVE 2005! at Gulf Coast Community College February 12, where space was allotted for him to sign books in the conference center and meet his readers, fellow authors, and local bookworms. Peddle his wares. And he didn't even have to give a presentation on Writing the Great American Novel on the Worldwide Web. He could just sell the pamphlet.

Coming June 1 Bukowski Never Did This $15 + 5 LitVision Press 1011 St. Andrews Dr., Suite I El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway reports that when he was living up over the sawmill, in Paris, and he finished a story he liked, he would treat himself to a tray of portugaises, or a boxing match with Ezra Pound, or Gertrude Stein.

Charles Bukowski went ten rounds with Mr. Hemingway.

Bukowski wrote Shakespeare Never Did This, about going on a book tour to Europe with a paparazzo.

Art "Home" Brew, compare art brut, wrote Bukowski Never Did This, about combining writing, work, and family. And going ten rounds with Hemingway. And Bukowski. And eating oysters-on-the-half-shell at the Acme Oyster Bar in Baytowne Wharf, in Sandestin, where he would go to hear local reggae-bluegrass fusion band, Dread Clampitt, which his younger son, Balder, played mandolin in, and sang.

Brew designed the band's web site and wrote a history of the band as liner notes for their eponymous CD, Dread Clampitt, a booklet he called Root Doctor (out of print).

In fact, all of Brew's books are out of print. Playing Hurt, Raw Energy, Screed, Common Sense, Full Plate, Blue Darter, Lost Writings, Evil Genius, Open Book, and Forty.

The last book-length book Brew published was Forty, his 40th book, 17 years ago.

So publication of Bukowski Never Did This is something of an event, for Brew.

Even Kerouac only went seven years between The Town and the City and On the Road.

Bukowski Never Did This is Brew's 251st, 252nd, and 253rd book.

Bukowski never did do that.

it is a very good feeling, a new and very great book being published congratulations to you and good news for us all. love larry and hazel.