I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed

It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...

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...

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

the ladies of summer will die like… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever

he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…

the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

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

oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...