Pickle Factory boss: What do you write?
Henry Chinaski: Mostly short stories. I’m halfway through a novel.
Pickle Factory boss: What’s it about?
Henry Chinaski: Everything.
Pickle Factory boss: You mean, for instance, it’s about. . .cancer?
Henry Chinaski: Yes.
Pickle Factory boss: How about my wife?
Henry Chinaski: She’s in there too.