The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship is a book-length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own lives and natures, and giving new meaning to what was once only familiar.

Crumb has illustrated the text with 12 full-page drawings and a portrait of Bukowski, adding a visual depth to the raw and iconoclastic nature of Bukowski's words. These journals alternate between generous accounts of his gambling jaunts and the bizarre intrusions of fame: the interviewers, Hollywood glitterati, TV producers — odd counterpoints to "the racetrack crowd... the world brought down to size, life grinding against death and losing."

Disarmingly candid, and salted with a particularly wry and gritty wisdom, this book offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of America's most influential writers.

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Pages missing. They must be off gallivanting in a novel! 📚.

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