#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.
the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...
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...
she wrote me a letter from a small room near the Seine. she said she was going to dancing class, she got up, she said at 5 o’clock in the morning
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...
Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...
I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or… To do a dull thing with style is p… To do a dangerous thing with style… Bullfighting can be an art
the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,
up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness
they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...