The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship is a posthumously published collection of journal entries and reflections by American writer Charles Bukowski. Released in 1998, the book offers raw, unfiltered insights into Bukowski's daily life, thoughts on writing, observations on society, and struggles with alcoholism and poverty. It provides a candid glimpse into the mind of the influential "dirty realist" author.
The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship. Charles Bow. Yeah.
""The book is explicitly named by the speaker as a work by Charles Bukowski, comparing its diary-like format to Hunter S. Thompson's book."