I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...

listening to Bruckner on the radio wondering why I’m not half mad over the latest breakup with my latest girlfriend wondering why I’m not driving the…

with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head

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

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...

After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...

drinking German beer and trying to come up with the immortal poem at 5 p.m. in the afternoon. but, ah, I’ve told the

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...