Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was all rig… helped him he said to think about other… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general but stil…

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

in San Francisco the landlady, 80, help… Victrola up the stairway and I played B… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the center o… filled with beer and winebottles;

this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time

old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows

They had this thing called Training Cla… A big Italiano got up on the lecture pl… “. . . now there’s nothing like the smel… Good god, I thought, am I hearing right… “. . . so take a bath everyday. You will…

There was a gang of us down there. 150 o… After swearing us in, the guy told us: “All right now, you’ve got a good job.… Security? You could get security in jai… Nearly 12 years later, out of these 150…

Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...

he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, untouched… externals. little shiver of horror runs through me… about

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you

at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees

I would, of course, prefer to be with th… instead of with a photograph of an old S… to the sound of the anvil chorus and leg… girls kicking high, showing everything b… but I might as well be dead right now

That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...