Search results for query: John Fante

...the italian blood pass the 100 mark, but I guess not when you drink that much. Still the quality of his last novel makes me fantasize of what he could have written if he lived a little longer. Also I can't help but feel blessed at sharing the same birthdate with John Fante:D....my 21st...

i just got a link to that this morning on google alerts. http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-library-acquires-john-fante-87080.aspx and also one mentioning fante's 100th birthday, which is today...

I was interested to read about this 1999 documentary made on John Fante but was bummed out when I pressed the 'Get the DVD' button only to be told that "DVD copies of A SAD FLOWER IN THE SAND are currently unavailable". Anybody seen it...

There's just such a purity and truth to his work, isn't there? He really wrote from the heart. Another reason to love Bukowski is that he introduced me to this other great writer in John Fante.

Baseball features heavily in 'Wait Until the Spring Bandini'. '1933 was a Bad Year' is about a baseball player too iirc. Didn't know about that other book he'd planned though. I love John Fante, I must say.

...buying a glove and a ball but I think that was mainly cos' I liked the look of the equipment since I never furthered the interest. I know John Fante writes about baseball in a few of his books. Apparantly he was a pretty fine player in his youth. I think before his death he was planning to...

I was bored last night and decided to pick out 'Barton Fink' from my DVD collecion. I wonder if The Coen bros. read any Fante when making the film. Maybe...maybe not, but either way in remined me a lot of 'Dreams from Bunker Hill'. Gotta love John Goodman too. I also watched a weird film with...

...; Chateaubriand ; Pierre Choderlos de Laclos ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Fedor Dostoïevski ; Alexandre Dumas ; Marguerite Duras ; John Fante ; Edward Morgan Forster ; Jean Genet ; Jean Giono ; Goethe ; Günter Grass ; Knut Hamsun ; Thomas Hardy ; Ernest Hemingway ; E.T.A. Hoffmann ; Victor...

I would say they are both Fine or Near Fine (almost As New really, I've only opened them up 2 or 3 times), but I'm no book rater. And truly, if you've never seen these before, you're in for a treat for they both really are an example of a publication serving as an art form in of itself...

...I have a blog and I like cats. Someone mentioned I should say something about Bukowski, so here goes... I got into Buk through John Fante (or should I say, reading John Fante). Like Buk, Fante is my god. I don't think there's another prose writer who can match him. That said, Buk's...

...guitar in a hardcore punk band... ...but love anything from jazz to folk to grindcore. Bob Dylan is my all time favourite ...as well as John Fante, Edward Hopper and Sergio Leone. I am currrently doing an admin job which sucks. It's an easy job (I have internet connection so I just surf...

London for you Oxford For me The Brits are taking Over!!! Welcome aboard, Iv just ordered some John Fante and im looking forwards to reading it, What do you think of his style of writing compared to Buk?

Hello from London! I'm new here and keen on getting more Bukowski. I got into Bukowski through reading John Fante and would like to get some more of the man who he influenced. I have read Factotum and a selection of his poems and reallly like his energetic style and honest writing. I am...

...favorite poet. The only poet that even comes close is Paul Dunbar. And I don't even like him as much as I used to. Favorite novelist is John Fante, favorite short story writer? Probably Faulkner. Can't stand his longer fiction because I can't focus enough to finish one of 'em... But...

I wouldn't say their styles are similar--Fante is much more sparse & economical...& Miller gets a bit heady with words--but their material shares a very similar spirit and humor. I am a huge fan of both. Quiet Days at Clichy is a shorter book that will give you a pretty good glimpse into...