1. LickTheStar

    which fante to read first?

    Did someone say John Fante? I always recommend Ask the Dust for someone looking to get into Fante. It feels like he had really perfected his short, punctual style by that point... Wait Until Spring, Bandini is also good, as is Full of Life (his "cash-in" novel), but to really get a feel for...
  2. Ponder

    which fante to read first?

    LickTheStar is the John Fante specialist of Buknet. The first Fante book I read (in the 80ties) was Ask the dust.
  3. Digney in Burnaby

    JOHN FANTE: a conversation with Ben Pleasants

    The Fante interview tapes can be found here. Searching around you can find the transcripts. Remembering John Fante, a collection of essays by his family can be found here.
  4. esart

    Legendary bookstores

    it's no longer there, but dutton's was where i used to buy all my bukowski and john fante books. it was in north hollywood on laurel canyon.
  5. Digney in Burnaby

    Little help over here?

    Same poem. A couple word changes. Poem title in NYQ 51 is: IT'S A DRAG JUST BREATHING THROUGH MY NOSTRILS ALL DAY LONG... Essentially the same poem with some changes in Nirvana. Essentially the same poem with some changes made to the Come On In! version. Title in NYQ 49 is: SMALL...
  6. Hosh

    Last CD you bought/ Book you read

    ...thought he'd written in some secret code because the pages we so thick with text. At one point he calls his wife a "nattering old cow" and wishes she'd just disappear...& I nearly did a spit-take! It instantly reminded me of John Fante's Arturo Bandini...which I consider mighty high praise.
  7. Black Swan

    Who do you write like?

    John Fante came up as William Shakespeare. A second time, as Kurt Vonnegut
  8. V

    Hi

    ...out more about one of idols really, just finished reading locked in the arms of a crazy life, and preferred the Barry Miles bio, bit more in depth, the odd thing is i got into Bukowski by reading John Fante...Both are just fantastic though. Anyway, hope to get to know a few of ya take it easy
  9. M

    Black Sparrow typesetter selling her collection

    Thank you, and actually there are a few I'll try to get you a list tomorrow- maybe you could email me and then i'll have your email address to send you list of her John Fante stuff.
  10. LickTheStar

    Black Sparrow typesetter selling her collection

    ...value. Ebay is typically lower than market value... There are plenty of people here who have more knowledge about values of books than I do, though. Incidentally, if there is any John Fante in there, I'd be excited to hear about it... Shame about your friend, hopefully she has a speedy...
  11. Rekrab

    Signed by Fante & Bukowski

    I wouldn't kick this out of my library: http://cgi.ebay.com/John-Fante-Ask-Dust-SIGNED-Fante-Bukowski-/250655982598?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item3a5c42c406
  12. Rekrab

    Bukowski portrait postcards by Barker still available

    Apostrophe Books in Long Beach, California, has a display up featuring my Bukowski watercolor postcards, along with books by Buk, John Fante and the Beats. As far as I know, this is my first ever bookstore display, and I'm stoked. And, in you're in So. Cal, you can buy a set of the cards there...
  13. Ponder

    Fante Interviews

    Don't be so lazy . . . http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-dust-fog-of-las-streets-the-john-fante-tapes-one/
  14. the stone

    Fante Interviews

    can anybody direct me to any John Fante interviews? video or audio would be nice, but anything would do at this point. searched everywhere and found very little. frustrated...
  15. Gary Eisenberg

    Photos of Michael Monfort in 1995

    ...2000, during the period of time that we were working on the Buk photogravures. He is perusing the (then) recently published biography of John Fante by Stephen Cooper. I don't think there are too many photos of Michael out there - he balked at my insistence upon taking these photos, but then...
  16. J

    John Fante

    ...not sure if this is the right place to put this but I didn't really see anywhere else to put it and this kind of works. Anyways, what John Fante books have you guys read and which ones do you suggest reading? I read Ask the Dust and I thought it was pretty good but it kind of just seemed...
  17. C

    Help with Pulp

    ...- I especially love when Red, who was another of Buk's friends, shit talks Chinaski in the bookstore - but there's a definite sadness throughout the whole thing. He also references John Fante and Dante Alighieri in there, too. It should definitely be read towards the end of your Bukowski...
  18. LickTheStar

    Pleasants on Bukowski by way of Fante

    I posted this link elsewhere in the forum, but I found an interesting passage here that would also fit here... Pleasants\Fante Interviews I thought this was interesting: Anyhow... there's more there about Fante, Bukowski, and tons of other things... A great read overall, but a really...
  19. LickTheStar

    JOHN FANTE: a conversation with Ben Pleasants

    Some more interviews here Fante\Pleasants at 3AM Great to have these transcriptions, now to find a way to capture the audio...
  20. DirtyJersey13

    Who's the poet/editor Bukowski refers to in "Notes..."

    ...Sometimes he changes the names just a bit, and sometimes he keeps it the same. Like in Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook he refers to John Fante as John Bante. That's a nice obvious one. But in that same passage he refers to a book by Fante titled Sporting Times? Yeah? which I have no...
  21. Bukfan

    Fante biography

    ...Councilwoman Jan Perry will gather with literary activists to officially name the corner of 5th and Grand streets in downtown Los Angeles "John Fante Square." So that's how you turn a corner into a square! It'll help Esotouric to sell more Fante Tours, I'm sure. And their beer sale will...
  22. Gerard K H Love

    Fante biography

    John Fante gets a Square? John Fante is being honored Thursday at the corner of 5th and Grand. Thursday at 11 a.m., Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry will gather with literary activists to officially name the corner of 5th and Grand streets in downtown Los Angeles "John Fante...
  23. Ponder

    Audio! Jack Hirschman & Neeli Cherkovski Recall Life With Bukowski

    ...Pound, and the Rolling Stones. Other significant works include the experimental title piece; a fictionalized account of meeting his hero, John Fante ("I Meet the Master"); an unflinching review of Hemingway ("An Old Drunk Who Ran Out of Luck"); the intense, autobiographical "Dirty Old Man...
  24. Black Swan

    JOHN FANTE: a conversation with Ben Pleasants

    ...M.C.: Dr. Joseph O'Neill ABOUT THE PROGRAM: from Ben Pleasants: My presentation at KHC in October will contain SECRET TAPES from John Fante and Charles Bukowski on the Bunker Hill Novels including John Fante's novels Ask The Dust & Dream From Bunker Hill along with Bukowski's childhood...
  25. LickTheStar

    JOHN FANTE: a conversation with Ben Pleasants

    Yeah there was that one piece for the LA Times (Stories of Irony From the Hand of John Fante July 8 '79) and that's all... I'll have to look into this, thanks for the heads up.
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