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The Tenderloin is in SF and where the prostitution happens.
I remember reading rainbow stories and whores for gloria so long ago and it was like reading a homicidal Ray Carver. He has a weird way of using writing as a method of quantifying experience. He is a maniac writer. Voluminous texts. The Royal Family and some of the other books get overwhelmingly long but there are brutal details that are surgically intense.
He should be considered a great american writer for many different reasons. Kind of like a Denis Johnson combined with Hunter S. Thompson.