Esotouric offers Charles Bukowski bus tour Nov. 12

City Lights Books & Esotouric celebrate new Charles Bukowski anthology with
an L.A. bus tour

WHAT: A special edition of Esotouric's "Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles
Bukowski's L.A." bus tour offered in association with City Lights Books, to
celebrate their publication of "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" by Charles
Bukowski (David Calonne, editor).

WHEN: Saturday, November 12, 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.

GIVEAWAYS: Five lucky passengers will win a free copy of "More Notes of a
Dirty Old Man" on tour day.

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

LOS ANGELES- On November 12, Esotouric rolls out a very special edition of
its popular and occasional Charles Bukowski bus tour, HAUNTS OF A DIRTY OLD
MAN. This tour is offered in association with the author's publisher City
Lights Books, and celebrates the publication of "More Notes of a Dirty Old
Man" (David Calonne, editor). The sequel to his most famous book, "More
Notes of a Dirty Old Man" features rare Bukowski columns unseen in decades.
After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski found fame in 1967
with his autobiographical newspaper column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," and
a book of that name in 1969. He continued writing this column, from its
inception in "Open City" to its conclusion in "High Times," through the
mid-1980s. "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" gathers many uncollected gems
from the column's 20-year run. And five lucky Esotouric tour passengers will
win a free copy on tour day.

Esotouric's Charles Bukowski 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 Oct 15 - Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
Thur Oct 20 - Free "Of Scrap & Steel" film screening (info at
www.lavatransforms.org)
Sat Oct 22 - Free virtual walking tours and "L.A. Noire" critique at
Archives Bazaar (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sun Oct 23 - Blood & Dumplings crime bus tour
Sun Oct 30 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Nov 5 - Weird West Adams crime bus tour
Sat Nov 12 - Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles
Sun Nov 27 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Dec 3 ­ Pasadena Confidential with Crimebo the Clown (weekend pass
available)
Sun Dec 4 - Eastside Babylon crime bus tour (weekend pass available)
Sat Dec 10 - Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice crime bus tour
Sun Dec 25 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Jan 7 - The Real Black Dahlia crime bus tour
Sat Jan 21 - Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles
Sat Jan 28 - The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's Southern California
Nightmare
Sun Jan 29 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Feb 4 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Route 66 (weekend pass
available)
Sun Feb 5 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: South Los Angeles (weekend
pass available)

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.org