For immediate release
April 9, 2008
Esotouric Offers Charles Bukowski Bus Tour During BookExpo Convention Weekend
WHAT: BookExpo Edition - "Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's LA" bus tour
WHEN: Saturday May 31, 5pm-9pm, departs from Arnie Morton's Steakhouse, 735 South Figueroa St., Downtown LA
COST: $55/person, snacks included
MORE INFO: visit http://www.esotouric.com or call 323-223-2767
LOS ANGELES- Esotouric, the company whose offbeat bus tours expose LA's secret history, is offering a very special evening edition of its popular Charles Bukowski bus tour HAUNTS OF A DIRTY OLD MAN to coincide with the influx of publishing industry professionals visiting LA for the annual BookExpo conference. The tour departs from the downtown branch of Arnie Morton's Steakhouse, which is opening its bar early to provide a gathering place for passengers.
"Haunts of a Dirty Old Man" spans Bukowski's personal city, from Skid Row to once-genteel Crown Hill, favorite bars and liquor stores, "Barfly" locations to the downtown library, where he discovered his "God," novelist John Fante. German born, Bukowski spent most of his life in L.A., working for the US Postal Service, as "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" columnist for the underground press and writing the screenplay for the autobiographical "Barfly." The city and its characters are everywhere in the work, so this tour celebrates the artist within his city with visits to places that were important to him.
The tour is hosted by Richard Schave, one of the forces behind the recent successful campaign to have Bukowski's one-time bungalow on De Longpre Avenue in East Hollywood declared an historic-cultural monument.
Special treat for BookExpo attendees: show your badge when boarding to receive a souvenir beer coaster featuring Tony Millionaire's Bukowski-inpsired Bukbird character.
Esotouric has made its name with true crime bus tours (Black Dahlia, Pasadena Confidential) and explorations of literary LA (Raymond Chandler, John Fante, James M. Cain). Now they turn their creative attentions to Bukowski, the prolific poet, novelist and screenwriter whose rough-hewn tales of boozing, wild women and rotten jobs never obscure the deep vein of sweetness and hope that runs through all his work. This special evening tour is a opportunity for visiting book industry professionals to explore the work and the city of one of LA's most distinctive authors and to ride along with "LA's coolest tour company" (Metroblogging LA).
Upcoming Esotouric bus tour schedule (new tours starred):
Sat April 12 - Wild Wild West Side
Sat April 26 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: The Many Downtowns
Sat April 26 - Main Street Vice (90 minute tour, $30)
Sat May 3 - Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles: In A Lonely Place
Sat May 10 - Blood & Dumplings San Gabriel Valley crime bus tour
Sat May 17- Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Route 66
Sat May 31 – BookExpo Edition - Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowki's LA
*Sat June 7- Visionary Hollywood
Sat June 14- Vroman's - The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's SoCal Nightmare
Sat June 28 – Amoeba Music - Where the Action Was rock history tour
*Sun July 20 – Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Boyle Heights
Sat Aug 9- Vroman's Bookstore – Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowki's LA
Sat Oct 11- Vroman's Bookstore - Raymond Chandler's LA
For more info on Esotouric, visit http://www.esotouric.com
Bukowski tour host Richard Schave is available for interviews. Contact Kim at amscrayATgmailDOTcom, 323-223-2767.
