Category Archives: literature

Knock Knock It’s Henry At The Door

April 23, 2013 – 8:57 pm

I was listening to Michael Pollan on NPR talking about how nobody cooks anymore. I was cooking chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner. I still cook. It’s not three-star, but it’s better than Chinese take-out. My friend Emily Armstrong said, “I make smothered pork chops, oat bran apple muffins, and five pounds of mashed potatoes.” [...]

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Dominoes With A Chicken

April 11, 2013 – 8:21 pm

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?” ― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

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Le Nécrophile

April 8, 2013 – 9:16 am

The biggest house in Quincy, Massachusetts was owned by a funeral director. His daughters were the most beautiful girls on the South Shore in 1967 and they introduced Cream to their admirers. I was one of them. So was an apprentice embalmer for their father. The other suitors joked that Adam made love to the [...]

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Reading Mr Beller’s Neighborhood

March 20, 2013 – 7:22 am

MR BELLER’S READING SERIES WHATEVER IT TAKES I’ll be reading March 21 at Dixon Place 161 Chrystie Street 7PM LOVE TO SEE YOU. I’ll be reading SMASHING KNIVES In the Greater Depression the employment opportunities for a man my age were limited in New York City. A younger man would perform the job for a [...]

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BURNT ORANGE HERESY by Charles Willieford

March 4, 2013 – 9:58 pm

I could have taken State Road Seven straight away by picking it up west of West Palm Beach, but because the old two-lane highway was used primarily by truck traffic barreling for Miami’s back door, into Hialeah, I stayed on U.S. 1 all the way to Boynton Beach before searching for a through road to [...]

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