#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Sti… “What did he do when you told him… “We were sitting across from each… “What happened?”
crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…
I had worked my charms on her for a couple of nights in a bar— not that we were new lovers, I had loved her for 16 months but she didn’t want to come to my…
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
Frank liked airplanes. He lent me all his pulp magazines about World War 1. The best was Flying Aces. The dog-fights were great, the Spads and the Fokkers mixing it. I read all the stor...
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown
my friend William is a fortunate m… he lacks the imagination to suffer he kept his first job his first wife can drive a car 50,000 miles
Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…
stepped into the wrong end of the… right leg which was bad to begin w… with a tv writer and an actor, som… life to make a sitcom and luckily… day at the track I get a box seat…
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...
she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these
The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...
vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose