#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...
in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;
They had this thing called Training Class, and so for 30 minutes each night, anyhow, we didn’t have to stick mail. A big Italiano got up on the lecture platform to tell us where it was....
she wore a platinum blond wig and her face was rouged and powder… and she put the lipstick on making a huge painted mouth and her neck was wrinkled
self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where
here they come these guys grey truck radio playing they are in a hurry
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.