Now my hand smells of gasoline. Like I said: It’s been a long night, my friend—one hell of a long night.
About the Author
KIRK ALEX grew up in Chicago. “Found myself in the jungles of South-East Asia at 19. Got through that. Returned to the Windy City and bought a typewriter. Little did I know that it would take years to develop a style, a voice, let alone get anywhere with it. Headed west soon after: L.A., and that madness. This was the early ’70s.”
“Was a furniture mover, delivered phone books door to door, drove a taxi, was a movie extra, worked in a factory, painted apartments, was a shipping clerk, did TV repos even, sold rebuilt mattresses to Sunset Strip prostitutes and out-of-work Hollywood actor types.”
“Bottom line: My Olivetti/LETTERA manual provided the only light at the end of the tunnel. Granted, it may have been a weak light; still, it was the only lifeline available. Without books/writing, I might have easily ended up in a straitjacket in a rubber room somewhere, or dead.”
Kirk Alex is also the author of: nonentity — A Novel; Blood, Sweat and Chump Change — Taxi Tales & Vignettes, and the upcoming horror tome: Lustmord: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher.
Table of Contents
Reviews
Title Page
Copyright
Fame At 2 A.M.
Get Married, And Have A Good Life
A Popular Fellow
Better Than Money
Trouble With A Diva
Working the Hard Side of the Street
About the Author