#AmericanWriters
The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...
it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind
On Thursday night Bobby phoned again. “Hey, man, what are you doing?” “Oh, come on, man, I’ll just stay for a few beers. . . .” “You treat him mean. He gets lonely when his wife is at w...
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and
the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
I don’t know how many bottles of b… I have consumed while waiting for… to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whi… and beer
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
at North Avenue 21 drunk tank you… there was always some guy who woul… way to the crapper and then you would curse him good,… he would know enough to either be…
I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...
shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then