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...

The next night as they moved the group from the main build– ing to the training building, I stopped to talk to Gus the old newsboy. Gus had once been 3rd-ranked welterweight contender b...

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

the goldfish sing all night with g… and the whores go down with the st… the whores go down with the stars I’m sorry, sir, we close at 4:30, besides yr mother’s neck is dirty,

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

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

You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...

a great white light dawns across t… continent as we fawn over our failed traditi… often kill to preserve them or sometimes kill just to kill.

she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,

as the spirit wanes the form

Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...