#AmericanWriters
We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...
he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....
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...
I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
at their best, there is gentleness… some understanding and, at times,… courage but all in all it is a mass, a glo… have too much.
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
On Thanksgiving Iris prepared the turkey and put it in the oven. Bobby and Valerie came over for a few drinks but they didn’t stay. It was refreshing. Iris had on another dress, just as...
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.