Join us as we dive headfirst into the most acclaimed novel of one of America's most influential and controversial voices, Charles Bukowski. Adam has read a fat stack of Bukowski's poetry books and a few of his novels, and Frank is initiated. Will Frank regret putting Adam in charge of choosing this round's novel? Find out! Also, we hunt some ghosts and discuss this new-fangled Max app from a promising start-up called the Home Box Office.

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From the back of the book:

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.

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