South of No North (short story collection)

The collection also features two of Bukowski's most famous short stories: "All the Assholes in the World Plus Mine", an autobiographical rumination on the treatment of his hemorrhoids, and "Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With Beasts".

The oddness of the subject matter can be explained by the fact that Bukowski's early lack of popularity in the U.S. meant that he wasn't being published in mainstream magazines.

The latter situation explains the presence of the soft-core pornographic story "Stop Staring at My Tits, Mister", an outrageous burlesque of cowboy fiction featuring a sex-mad wagon master named "Big Bart" obsessed with "Honeydew", the amply endowed wife of "The Kid".

Big Bart's obsession with Honeydew leads to the inevitable show down with The Kid, with highly unpredictable results reflecting both Bukowski's misanthropic, cynical appreciation of the absurdities of real life.

[2] The individual stories are held together by the framing device of the character of Charles Bukowski (played by actor Stephen Payne) in the act of writing.