all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3

One Sunday Jimmy talked me into going to the beach with him. He wanted to go swimming. I didn’t want to he seen wearing swimming trunks because my hack was covered with boils and scars....

unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant

I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...

luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that

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...

she left me 5 weeks ago and went t… that is, I think she left. the other day I went out to mail h… and I saw her sitting on the bus s… it was her hair there

sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…

there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...

they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers

I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...