Selling point number one, for the buyers, is: Bukowski sells. Certainly there are many Bukowski books out there, but City Lights has credibility historically-speaking as publisher of significant volumes of Bukowski's oeuvre to assert its quality as a collection.

The stories/essays in this book have never been published in book form. They were originally published in underground newspapers and magazines such as the "LA Free Press" and "Open City." This makes the book a must for the legions of Bukowski fans out there.