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Bought The Big Hunger by John Fante stories 1932-1959, edited by Stephen Cooper, listening to Leonard Cohen a lot lately

Here's the full LA Times review:

John Fante, Robinson Jeffers, Al Purdy, Kenneth Patchen, Harold Norse...

John Fante would be the only writer straight from Bukowski. And through John Fante his son Dan.

...and put it down. I still own it, because I've always meant to come back to it and give 'er a second try. Anybody want to encourage me? John Fante, I fucking adore. I've tracked down all of his books I'm aware were published, and my favorites are Brotherhood of the Grape and Full of Life. I...

...who would love for him to publish their work." Martin has also brought new life to the works of the late blue collar writer American John Fante and the British critic Wyndham Lewis. With his writers he says, "I always make a warm initial contact and then what happens, happens." "What...

I was thinking strongly about mentioning Camus, but I didn't want to sound too pretentious. There's something very empathetic about his writing. He could easily take the place of Huxley on my list.

Why Camus is the @#$% #1 Albert Camus #2 Fyodor Dostoyevski #3 Franz Kafka #4 John Fante #5 Jack Kerouac Camus rocks, fuckin' rocks. Such a gentle way of telling us how things will turn out. The rest is obvious...By that I mean the world shall get it, or not; not a Camus thing, just...

mine are: 1) Knut Hamsun 2) Dostoevsky 3) John Fante 4) Celine 5) Victor Valoff who are yours?:)

Well, it's a curse to take up your famous father's line of work. You see it a lot in music, where the offspring of famous musicians struggle against comparison all the time. The comparison is unfair, of course, but inevitable and unavoidable.

...I don't find there is really anything that original about his writing. I can't help but think if he did not have that heritage of being John Fante's (who of course is a truly excellent writer) son, he would be lumped in with the thousands of other Bukowski immitators desperetely trying to...

...tours are only a small part of Esotouric's business though. But you may have noticed that they do not have four pages of Black Dahlia, John Fante or Crime Clown garbage for sale. Why not? Where are the Raymond Chandler shot glasses, baby bibs and tote bags? Why is it only Bukowski they...

Red was difficult to get to know, and worth knowing. From '85-'90, I'd visit him and buy books. Specifically, John Fante and Charles Bukowski. Like many others, I went for the stories, which were hard earned - he asked me to leave on my first visit because I picked up a signed first edition Wm...

I didn't realize the you were still alive, John. :eek: Everyone? May I introduce the 2nd greatest writer in the world: Dan Fante's Dad: John Fante! (You are John Fante, of course?)

Just finished John Fante's The Brotherhood of the Grape. A pure delight. I can see why Buk marveled in Fante's choice of words to describe everyday life. Powerful sensual descriptions. I am now reading The Road to Los Angeles. What a beautiful writer.

Reading John Fante "The Brotherhood of the Grape" Absolute pleasure

...bungalow through website advice and extensive lobbying. He is similarly involved in the matter of the endangered apartment building where John Fante wrote "Ask the Dust." Lauren Everett is leading the De Longpre campaign. She does not have a relationship with Esotouric's bus tours. Kim...

I guess he didn't read John Fante after all. That is unless I'm the one that's crazy.

...with Los Angeles and striving to generate discussion and respect for its artists, buildings and past. This Bukowski tour grew out of our John Fante tour, and our work with the Fante family to gain recognition for Fante with a street naming or official square designation. We're currently...

i got carried away with the online book-buying again and ordered: the heart is a lonely hunter - carson mccullers spitting off tall buildings - dan fante the magus - john fowles mister dog - margaret wise brown the first two i've already read but have been dying to get my own copies; the...

...We will visit the Central Reading Room at the Los Angeles Public Library, where Bukowski discovered his "God," the Bunker Hill novelist John Fante. We will close the tour at closing time at Musso and Frank, the oldest restaurant in Hollywood and a great favorite of Bukowski's, to toast the...

...in a few weeks. Experiences around women on De Longpre would also inspire his watershed novel "Women." As far we know, unlike the John Fante "Ask the Dust" apartments on South Berendo, no homeless alcoholic has yet died inside this abandoned structure, but there's still time... to...

Favorite books besides Bukowski: The Sirens of Titan- Kurt Vonnegut Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card Ask the Dust- John Fante Kingdom of Fear- Hunter S. Thompson

...Also, Burroughs couldn't really write for shit, he was too messed up on heroin to write well. Plus, I have to give a lot of credit to Bukowski, because he inspired me to pick up John Fante. By the way, if you haven't read any Fante, pick up "Ask the Dust." One of the best books I've ever read.

I enjoyed Celine's (death on the installment plan) like crazy more than Journey... and I agree with Fante only once around. Loved Dostoevsky's crime and punishment. But Buk is bedside buddy anytime any page any poem any story. Buk:"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can" THE FLASH OF...