#AmericanWriters
You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water
The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...
yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like
this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”
That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...