IdleRich
IdleRich
Oh this is a good one... I'm thinking of those kinda Barry Gifford things.peripheral, "riders on the storm" america. serial killers, drifters, motels, strip clubs, christian fundamentalist cults, ufos.
Also somewhat related is the similarity between Bukowski, Miller, Dennis Johnson, John Fante and so on... maybe Celine. Some of those guys could certainly wander through each others' stories... I'd need to check the dates properly to see which ones would work but you know what I mean. Basically if you're that kind of person you can find that underworld in any city, it doesn't matter if others don't know it's there. I really like the way that in C by Tom McCarthy (I think it's that one) he writes about heroin in London after the war and how if you're part of it you see kind of magic doors to dealers and squats and so on, little paths to paradise, you recognise like-minded people. Didn't Frankie Bones once say something similar about London during acid house - but with reference to parties instead of drugs - in fact?