#AmericanWriters
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him
the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from
Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...
used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.
I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...
I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where
On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...
The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,