{"id":63643,"date":"2013-12-12T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=63643"},"modified":"2013-12-12T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T20:02:36","slug":"drinking-with-the-factotum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/drinking-with-the-factotum\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking with the Factotum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"640px-Bukowski_Tavern\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This morning, we mentioned a new bar opening tomorrow in Los Angeles: Barkowski. Writing at LAist<\/em>, Matthew Bramlett opines<\/a>,<\/p>\n

\n

There are so many things wrong with this place that can be seen almost immediately. Barkowski looks like a bar for bougie people who claim to have read “Ham on Rye” once and go out of their way to tell everyone that it “changed their life.” It’s the bar equivalent of buying a Misfits shirt at Urban Outfitters. Also, doesn’t King Eddy already exist, and didn’t Mr. Bukowski actually<\/em> patronize that place?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We can\u2019t speak to the lameness of the new watering hole, but it did remind us that Bukowski-themed bars are (appropriately, or worryingly) hardly a new phenomenon, and our readers have informed us of still more.<\/p>\n

  • Post Office<\/a>, a whiskey bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is named after Bukowski\u2019s semi-autobiographical 1971 novel \u201cdedicated to nobody.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, boasts the fittingly divey Bukowski Tavern<\/a> of Inman Square (there is also a location in Back Bay), where service is appropriately surly.<\/li>\n
  • Neither of which is to be confused with Bukowski\u2019s<\/a>, in Prague, where one can\u00a0smoke, probably rendering it most Bukowski-esque of all.<\/li>\n
  • Chinaski’s<\/a> of Glasgow seems kind of gastropub for the actual gent’s tastes, but can’t fault naming it after his longtime alter ego.<\/li>\n

    That\u2019s five right there. Got any more?<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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