Hot Water Music (book)

Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983 by Black Sparrow Press. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre.

Contents

• Less Delicate than the Locust
• Scream When You Burn
• A Couple of Gigolos
• The Great Poet
• You Kissed Lily
• Hot Lady
• It's a Dirty World
• 900 Pounds
• Decline and Fall
• Have You Read Pirandello?
• Strokes to Nowhere
• Some Mother
• Scum Grief
• Not Quite Bernadette
• Some Hangover
• A Working Day
• The Man Who Loved Elevators
• Head Job
• Turkeyneck Morning
• In and Out and Over
• I love you Albert
• White Dog Hunch
• Long Distance Drunk
• How To Get Published
• Spider
• The Death of the Father I
• The Death of the Father II
• Harry Ann Landers
• Beer at the Corner Bar
• The Upward Bird
• Cold Night
• A Favor for Don
• Praying Mantis
• Broken Merchandise
• Home Run
• Fooling Marie

Other references

The band Hot Water Music took their name from this book.