Portions from a Wine-stained Notebook: Short Stories and Essays

Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook is written by Charles Bukowski, edited by David Stephen Calonne, and published by City Lights.

Table of Contents

 * Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip
 * 20 Tanks From Kasseldown
 * Hard Without Music
 * Trace: Editors Write
 * Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook
 * A Rambling Essay on Poetics and the Bleeding Life Written While Drinking a Six-Pack (Tall)
 * In Defense of a Certain Type of Poetry, a Certain Type of Life, a Certain Type of Blood-Filled Creature Who will Someday Die
 * Artaud Anthology
 * An Old Drunk Who Ran Out of Luck
 * Notes of a Dirty Old Man
 * Untitled Essay in A Tribute to Jim Lowell
 * Notes of a Dirty Old Man
 * The Night Nobody Believed I was Allen Ginsberg
 * Should We Burn Uncle Sam's Ass?
 * The Silver Christ of Santa Fe
 * Dirty Old Man Confesses
 * Reading and Breeding for Kenneth
 * The L.A. Scene
 * Notes on the Life of an Aged Poet
 * Upon the Mathematics of the Breath and the Way
 * Notes of a Dirty Old Man
 * Notes of a Dirty Old Man
 * Notes of a Dirty Old Man
 * Unpublished Foreword to William Wantling's 7 on Style
 * Jaggernaut
 * Picking the Horses
 * Workout
 * The Way it Happened
 * Just Passing Time
 * Distractions in the Literary Life
 * I Meet the Master
 * Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles for Li Po
 * Looking Back at a Big One
 * Another Portfolio
 * The Other
 * Basic Training