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...

they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hood and… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly

“You ought to try to be like Abe Morten… “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my fath… “Don’t you want to be happy, Henry?” as… “Stop feeling sorry for yourself,” said… “What’s going to become of you? How the…

I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...

this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a

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…

A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...

Dee Dee had to pick up her son at the airport. He was coming home from England for his vacation. He was 17, she told me, and his father was an ex-concert pianist. But he’d fallen for sp...

I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

she undressed in front of me keeping her pussy to the front while I lay in bed with a bottle of beer. where’d you get that wart on

That summer, July 1934, they gunned dow… movie house in Chicago. He never had a… repealed and my father drank Eastside be… everybody feel terrible. Roosevelt was… over the radio and everybody listened. H…

went for a walk on Hollywood Boulevard. looked down and there was a large white… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as mine. we stopped at traffic signals together.

I had worked my charms on her for a couple of nights in a bar— not that we were new lovers, I had loved her for 16 months but she didn’t want to come to my place