#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...
with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack program… in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
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...
While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
drunk on the dark streets of some… it’s night, you’re lost, where’s y… room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water.
This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...
she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood
Jane, who has been dead for 31 yea… never could have imagined that I would write a scre… days together and
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you