the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed

I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…

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…

got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she

he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and

She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...

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

So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...

they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,

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

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

here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…