Charles Bukowski is an iconic American writer, whose European popularity has always outstripped the American one (in Germany alone, the lifetime circulation of his books exceeded two million), the author of more than forty books, including novels, poems, essays and short stories. Despite the sometimes shocking naturalism, his texts are full of lyricism, even a kind of sentimentality. Bukowski is rightfully considered a master of the short form, which he perfected in his legendary column “Notes of an Old Goat,” published in the Los Angeles underground newspaper Open City; It was these stories that turned him from an outsider poet into “the idol of millions and the ruler of thoughts,” no matter how much he himself disavowed such a definition. “Notes of an Old Goat” had already been published in Russian - reduced by a quarter and in a meager, samizdat, circulation; That edition has long become a collector's rarity. We present to your attention a newly edited text of the legendary collection - and for the first time in its entirety. The publication contains profanity.