#AmericanWriters
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow
the old fart, he used his literary… to reel them in one at a time, each younger than the last. he liked to meet them for luncheon… wine
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
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...
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...
R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”
I watched the board and the 6 drop… after a first flash of 18 from a m… of 12...two minutes to post and a… kept jamming against my back, but… I bet 20 to win and walked out to…
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