places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...

I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind

people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...

“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about

Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...

the legs are gone and the hopes—th… and I haven’t shaved in sixteen da… but the mailman still makes his ro… water still comes out of the fauce… myself with glazed and milky eyes…

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish