#AmericanWriters
women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...
screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
Upon awakening I got up and used Joanna’s toothbrush, drank a couple of glasses of water, washed my hands and face and got back into bed. Joanna turned around and my mouth found hers. M...
our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.
I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy
A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...
Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...