the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...

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...

my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear

nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…

naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves

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...

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

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back

16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young

I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten