The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, August 16, 2018




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Summary: "The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative."  –Charles Bukowski, born on this day in 1920