#AmericanWriters
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.
stuck in the rain on the freeway,… these are the lucky ones, these ar… dutifully employed, most with thei… as possible as they try not to thi… this is our new civilization: as m…
a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed
I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
Jane, who has been dead for 31 yea… never could have imagined that I would write a scre… days together and
listen, man, don’t tell me about t… sent, we didn’t receive them, we are very careful with manuscrip… we bake them burn them
had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light