Esotouric offers Charles Bukowski bus tour Aug. 20

Discover the Gritty Side of L.A. Literature With A Charles Bukowski Bus Tour

WHAT: Esotouric's "Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's L.A." bus
tour

WHEN: Sunday, August 20, 12pm-4pm, departs from Philippe The Original, 1001
N Alameda, Downtown LA

COST: $58/person, includes coffee and donuts served at Bukowski's favorite
Pink Elephant Liquor Store.

MORE INFO: visit http://www.esotouric.com/buk or call 323-223-2767

On August 20, Esotouric rolls out its popular and occasional
Charles Bukowski bus tour, HAUNTS OF A DIRTY OLD MAN. The tour departs from
Philippe The Original, the legendary downtown sandwich shop where postal
worker Bukowski often ate while employed across the street at the brutal
Terminal Annex sorting facility.

The tour is hosted by Richard Schave, one of the forces behind the recent
successful campaign to have Bukowski's one-time bungalow on De Longpre
Avenue in East Hollywood declared an historic-cultural monument.

HAUNTS OF A DIRTY OLD MAN spans Bukowski's personal city, from the Skid Row
bars where he tuned his young writer's ear to the voices of old rummies to
the once-genteel Crown Hill apartments where he fought with his first love
Jane, favorite bars and liquor stores, "Barfly" locations to the downtown
library, where he discovered his "God," novelist John Fante (recently
honored with a Square in his name outside that library, a designation that
was initially proposed to City Council by tour host Richard Schave).

German born, Charles Bukowski spent most of his life in L.A., working for
the US Postal Service, as "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" columnist for the
underground press and writing the screenplay for the autobiographical
"Barfly." The city and its characters are everywhere in the work, so this
tour celebrates the artist within his city with visits to places that were
important to him and to his work. The tour includes a stop at Pink Elephant
Liquor in East Hollywood for complementary coffee and donuts, though many
riders also pick up a little something stronger for the road.

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). Here they'll 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.

Upcoming Esotouric bus tour and special event schedule
Sat July 30 - Maja's Mysteries: Rapture & Release
Sun July 31 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at www.lavatransforms.org)
Sat August 6 - Reyner Banham Loves L.A.: Route 66
Sun August 7 - Reyner Banham Loves L.A.: South L.A.
Sat August 20 - Charles Bukowski's L.A.: Haunts of a Dirty Old Man
Sat August 27 - Reyner Banham Loves L.A.: The Lowdown on Downtown
Sun August 28 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at www.lavatransforms.org)
Sat Sept 10 - Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice crime bus tour
Sat Sept 24 - The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's Southern California
Nightmare
Sun Sept 25 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Oct 1- The Real Black Dahlia crime bus tour

For more info on Esotouric, visit http://www.esotouric.com

Esotouric's Richard Schave and Kim Cooper are proud members of LAVA - The
Los Angeles Visionaries Association. http://www.lavatransforms.or g