have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.

Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a

I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...

I was surprised the next morning when April knocked on the door. April was the one on ATD who had been at Harry Ascot’s party and who had left with the speed freak. It was 11 am. April ...

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...