I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...

But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

I was hungover again, another heat spell was on—a week of 100 degree days. The drinking went on each night, and in the early mornings and days there was The Stone and the impossibility ...

Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into

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...

I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.

this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man

he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about

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

Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...

That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...