Our 30 minutes was now devoted to scheme training. They gave us each a deck of cards to learn and stick into pur cases. To pass the scheme you had to throw 100 cards in 8 minutes or les...

Julio came by with his guitar and sang h… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs and als… published books of little drawings and poems.

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...

the German hotel was very strange and ex… double doors to the rooms, very thick do… looked the park and the vasser tern and… it was usually too late for breakfast an… would be everywhere changing sheets and…

“I’ve made it,” she said, “I’ve come through.” she had on new boots, pants and a white sweater. “I know what I want now.” she was from Chicago and had settled in L.A.’s Fairfax district.

I have a saying, “the tough ones always… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting,

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

my mother knocked on my rooming-house do… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?

You had to fill out more papers to get o… The first page they gave you was a perso… “I am sorry you are terminating your pos… How could he be sorry? He didn’t even k… “Did you find our supervisors understand…

he said, “I was working in Hollywood wh… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to stand up… end of the afternoon and so I had to hel… into a taxi