Then some men came around and ripped out every other water– fountain. “Hey, look, what the hell are they doing?” I asked. I was in the 3rd class flat section. I walked over to another c...

It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...

Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...

since my last name was Fuch, he sa… believe the school yard was tough:… powder down my neck, threw gravel… with rubber bands in class, and ou… me names, well, one name mainly, o…

they’re not going to let you sit at a front table at some cafe in Europe in the mid-afternoon sun. you do, somebody’s going to

it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?

Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into

all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3