1. mjp

    Russle Norris, Bookseller and Abebooks.

    This guy had hundreds of Fante Black Sparrow paperbacks: https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=235 The auctions are all long closed, but with that many copies he's worth watching for new auctions or contacting directly.
  2. nymark

    Russle Norris, Bookseller and Abebooks.

    David, did you see this? I was in the queue to bid but it went higher than I wanted to go. http://cgi.ebay.com/Ask-the-Dust-Signed-by-John-Fante-Only-250-copies_W0QQitemZ200021674590QQihZ010QQcategoryZ29223QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
  3. Rekrab

    Russle Norris, Bookseller and Abebooks.

    ...later printings, so that's no great achievement. Maybe someday I'll get class and go for the hardcovers. Like a fool, I sold all my John Fante Black Sparrow Press editions, and they're getting hard to find used. Fante has really gotten huge, deservedly so. I just reread ASK THE DUST and...
  4. ESMoist

    Favorite Author (dead and still with us)

    Charles Bukowski, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, John Fante, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, George Orwell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aldous Huxley, Sun Tzu, Hermann Hesse, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Oscar Wilde, Victor Zygonov, William S.Burroughs Henry Rollins, Theodor W. Adorno, Tom Wolfe (one book), Kafka, Mark...
  5. bospress.net

    Buk Trivia... Answerer becomes next Questioner

    ...you will blow me out of the water. Buk wrote the foreword to surprisingly few writers. Among those were books by Steve Richmond, John Fante, and John Corrington. He also wrote one for a young small press poet who has since left the scene. Who is it? I think that makes the only...
  6. bospress.net

    Another collecting dilemma

    Black sparrow did use cut autographs for a Gertrude Stein book once. Also, the tipped in manuscripts into some limited editions of Charles Reznikoff. I'm not sure about Fante. I do know that Joyce has signed som eof the limiteds from after John died... Bill;
  7. chronic

    Another collecting dilemma

    Didn't Black Sparrow use some of John Fante's canceled checks to put together a "signed" edition? Or am I confused?
  8. HenryChinaski

    Any other authors to recommend.

    sure sure celine knut hamsun john fante robinson jeffers ezra pound carson mcullers carl sandburg kurt vonnegut chuck palahniuk jd sallinger anthony burgess hemingway (if you don't feel like smiling)
  9. oneiros

    The DaVinci Code

    No. I never said anything about a books sales being the only qualification for great literature. I do, however, claim that huge sales implies great literature. But Fante's work can surely be great without many readers. A tree that falls in the forest DOES make a sound even if nobody is around to...
  10. S

    The DaVinci Code

    ...if nobody have noticed it. Most great writers that I love to read weren't even published in their lifetimes. Would you suggest that John Fante's books weren't (great) literature because he did not reach popular mainstream during his life (or after)? ps. It is all in the interest of...
  11. M

    Favorite Author (dead and still with us)

    ...living include Jamie O'Neill, Paul West, Pat Barker, E.L. Doctorow, Stephen Fry, Carlos Fuentes, Cormac McCarthy, Edmund White; dead = John Fante, Paul Bowles, Bukowski, Alfred Chester, John Cheever, E.M. Forster, lots of the Victorians, especially Jane Austen, yes, that's right, Austen, and...
  12. HenryChinaski

    Favorite Author (dead and still with us)

    ...interests but TOOT TOOT BUK...of course Celine, for The Journey To The End Of Night Chuck Palahniuk, for Choke and Fight Club John Fante, Ask The Dust and Wait Until Spring, Bandini Fydor Dosteyovsky(sp), I don't like all of his work but Notes From The Underground and The Idiot are...
  13. J

    Favorite Author (dead and still with us)

    knut hamsun john fante bukowski celine dostoevsky nietzsche leonard cohen hemingway sherwood anderson schopenauer o'neill
  14. A

    What other writers have you read because Bukowski told you so?

    Buks favorite authors and composers Heres a further list of authors who Buk liked-taken page xii of the book "Charles Bukowski :Sunlight Here I am" edited by David Stephen Calonne which is well worth getting and contains key interviews at different stages...
  15. bmcg

    Favorite Author (dead and still with us)

    Excellent thread - love a wee list now and again. Richard Yates. Harry Crews. John O'Hara. Hemingway. Celine. Carson McCullers. Dostoevsky. Palahniuk (for Fight Club). Knut Hamsun. Kevin Canty. Dan Fante and his Da. Charles Willeford (not the Moseley novels) John Horne Burns (for...
  16. mjp

    Favorite Author (dead and still with us)

    Hunter Thompson Mark Twain John Fante Lester Bangs Theodore Geisel That Bukowski guy Herman Hesse (or his English translators) PJ O'Rourke etc.
  17. hank solo

    Born into this

    ...Than the Locust (false start) Less Delicate Than the Locust excerpt from Ham On Rye (1982) - we ain?t got no money, honey, but we got rain Plus Bukowski talks about his experiences in France, computers vs. the typewriter, his novel Pulp, Ezra Pound, John Fante, and other assorted things.
  18. number6horse

    Last CD you bought/ Book you read

    ...mind for books - One to actually read and care about, and another to fall asleep to. No shame in that. Books - "Ask The Dust" - John Fante "Big Rock Candy Mountain" - Wallace Stegner(the sleeper) CD - last one I paid money for is Darlyne Cain.
  19. mjp

    John Fante on eBay

    This seller has new Black Sparrow editions of all of the John Fante books for prices between $8.12 and $9.28. 50 of each title are available (which is why I'm breaking my own rule against posting eBay auctions ;)), and they're all "buy it now" prices. Seems like a great opportunity if you ever...
  20. Charlie

    Ask the Dust trailer

    According to the critics, its not so great.
  21. mjp

    Movie based on Fante book

    I was doing some Googling of John Fante (to determine if this 1936 Mercury magazine piece we have is his first published work) when I came across this movie: Wait Until Spring Bandini Anyone seen it? I hadn't heard of it before. And look who co-stars: Faye Dunaway. Heh. I ordered a copy from...
  22. SonInLawOfSam

    When did you discover Bukowski?

    ...South of No North, Ham on Rye, Women etc. etc. Somewhere in there I also started on the poetry and I've never looked back. I even got into John Fante via a reference in one of Bukowski's books (although I can't remember which one at the moment). I can honestly say that I've read Ham on Rye...
  23. B

    What other writers have you read because Bukowski told you so?

    I read West of Rome by John Fante and thought it was hysterical ( and very well written ).
  24. mjp

    Ask the Dust trailer

    ...to Ask the Dust. I think he talks about finding Fante in the library downtown... small conversation in the afternoon with John Fante he said, "I was working in Hollywood when Faulkner was working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to stand up at the end of the...
  25. mjp

    Ask the Dust trailer

    John Fante. Ask the Dust is probably his best book, but he was a great storyteller who's simple, plain language style had a great influence on Bukowski when he found his books in the library. Fante also used the city of Los Angeles predominantly in many of his stories, and I think this had an...
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