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THE BIRTHE OF A LITERARY MAGAZINE
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Jahrbuch der Charles-Bukowski-Gesellschaft 2009 74
BukScene #1 The Birth of a Literary Magazine An interview with Jocelyne Desforges & Jan Hallers The authors are the founders of a new international magazine on Bukowski and related poets. Here they talk about their experiences creating that magazine. Hello Jocelyne and Jan, you're from very different countries, Canada and the Netherlands. Still you both have gathered to start a magazine together. A magazine about Bukowski. You called it 'BUK-SCENE' and it hit a lot of ground. Would you please talk a bit about the project? How the idea appeared, how it came to life and what happened afterwards . . . Jocelyne: What is interesting to me is that the fans of Bukowski are so numerous, with different lifestyles, from different parts of the world, different languages, ages, and yet, we instantly feel a certain connec-tion. You get Bukowski or you simply don't. Jan, in the Netherlands, had been reading Bukowski for more than 25 years, selling his books online and was thinking of sharing his find with Dutch readers. Me, In Canada, I had been introduced to Bukowski in the seventies, but I really got him much later after inheriting 20 of his books of poetry, letters and novels. I read everything I had within a few months. Then I was looking to express my enthusiasm through paintings, by introducing some of his lines in my artwork. Jan: What brought Jocelyne and I together was www.bukowski.net, a website created by Michael Phill...
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