the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my

he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…

They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...

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

one of the first actors to play Ta… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards

I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...

now the territory is taken, the sacrificial lambs have been sl… as history is scratched again on t… as the bankers scurry to survive, as the young girls paint their hun…

murdered in the alleys of the land frost-bitten against flagpoles pawned by females educated in the dark for the dark vomiting into plugged toilets

see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…

we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers