#Americans #XXCentury
we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
the lair of the hunted is hidden in the last place you’d ever look and even if you find it you won’t believe
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
listen, man, don’t tell me about the poe… sent, we didn’t receive them, we are very careful with manuscripts we bake them burn them
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax job I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I got ev… I need.
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...
#1982 #HamOnRye
he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my time: everybody was waiting for the main event… drinking beer, and I was thinking
#1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
#1978 #Women
I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...
#1971 #PostOffice
On Thanksgiving Iris prepared the turkey and put it in the oven. Bobby and Valerie came over for a few drinks but they didn’t stay. It was refreshing. Iris had on another dress, just as...
we had goldfish and they circled around… in the bowl on the table near the heavy… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting us al… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy Henry!’
Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.
The next day Katherine phoned me. She s… “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something… “I want to see you more than anybody I… “Then what is it?” “Well, you know Joanna Dover ...”
It was about a week later around 7 a.m. I had lucked into another day off and after a double workout, I was up against Joyce’s ass, her asshole, sleeping, verily sleeping, and then the ...