#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…
I used to take the back off the telephone and stuff it with ra… and when somebody knocked I wouldn’t answer and if they pers… I’d tell them in terms vulgar
you consult psychiatrists and phil… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
stew at noon, my dear; and look: the ants, the sawdust, the mica plants, the shadows of banks like bad jokes; do you think we’ll hear
I am in this low—slung sports car painted a deep, rich yellow driving under an Italian sun. I have a British accent. I’m wearing dark shades
Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table
When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
I began at 6:18 p.m. and Dave Janko did not begin until 10:36 p.m., so it could have been worse. Having a 10:06 thirty minute lunch, I was usually back by the time he got in. In he’d co...
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother