#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
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 didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear
he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets
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 ...
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
This is advance notice that it is proposed to remove you from the Postal Service or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed action is...
I was standing in line at the bank… when the old fellow in front of me dropped his glasses (luckily, with… case) and as he bent over
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
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 drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves