Austere Hedonism
UNITED STATES—Austere hedonism. It’s an approach that springs from my morning espresso. Alone, beautiful, black and biting. More often than not that single espresso...
Lawrence Brown
UNITED STATES—I was on the porch when a man came walking down the street and stopped to look at the front of the house....
Grady Of Figueroa
UNITED STATES—While I was waiting for that first renter, er, sucker, to walk through that door, see a room and say ‘I love it,’...
A Freeway Runs Through It
UNITED STATES—At 1980 Estrella Avenue I was free to pursue my screenwriting. I was free to check out “Crime and Punishment” from the library...
Carpe Diet
UNITED STATES—Since writing my own diet book, chronicling my hilarious fat-to-fit journey and culling my diet secrets, to join the towering heap of diets...
4. Home Free
UNITED STATES—She was a good-natured house, robin’s egg blue hidden in a drab, soot-muted gray, where I’d have my free room on the corner...
A Real Kick
UNITED STATES—I was flush in confidence, soon to complete a second draft of my screenplay, “The Persecuted,” on my Olivetti portable that fit snugly...
Car Washing In Malibu
UNITED STATES—Two British girls traveling in Los Angeles had met the poet Eric on a bus on his way home from the law office....
There’s A Screenwriter On My Couch
UNITED STATES—That June, I got off the Tijuana-downtown Los Angeles bus with one huge suitcase and moseyed over to the house on Nadeau Drive...
