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Hunger: Day 2

burntfacejake wrote 23 hours ago: Upon concluding Hunger I can clearly state that while there there is a lot of influence on Fante her … more →

Tags: Reaction, Reading, Arturo Bandini, Ask the dust, goebbels, Hunger, Knut Hamsun, Nazi, Nobel

Hunger: Day 1

burntfacejake wrote 1 day ago: Like any late bloomer, I read Bukowski in college, Fante the summer after completing my degree and n … more →

Tags: Reading, Reaction, Hunger, Knut Hamsun, Charles Bukowski, Sult, Arturo Bandini, Camilla, Ylayali

Book 10: Ask the Dust by John Fante

righteousindigestion wrote 3 weeks ago: When I announced that I was following my ragged dreams out to the West Coast, I threw a going away p … more →

Tags: Ask the dust, bandini, Book 10

The deep days, the sad days9 comments

Max Cairnduff wrote 2 months ago: Wait until Spring, Bandini is the 1938 novel of now relatively little known author John Fante. It is … more →

Tags: Fante John, Literary Fiction, US Literature

The Skating Rink: Day 1

burntfacejake wrote 2 months ago: When I was in high school I read God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut and I knew that I had … more →

Tags: Reading, Reaction, Kurt Vonnegt, roberto bolaño, The Skating Rink

John Fante

jamesinportland wrote 2 months ago: Some would say I should have an introductory post.  I would angrily disagree.  If you don’t know how … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

What's Up, Tiger Lily? No really, what's 'UP'?

tincolor wrote 2 months ago: I did some translation from English into Japanese yesterday for my thesis.  The passage wasn’t … more →

Tags: Translations, Charles Bukowski, 翻訳

Shiny and new

jason wrote 3 months ago: From John Fante’s short story First Communion: I knelt at the altar and said my penance.  I we … more →

Tags: Books, Quotations

Warped Woman (aka Wilma's Wants and Taboo Thrills)4 comments

orriehittfan wrote 3 months ago: I don’t have a scan of the cover yet, as the copy I have is pretty beaten up, but the cover is … more →

Tags: Orrie Hitt, sleazecore, warped woman, peeping toms, comfort of women, censorship, book burning, novel books, Freedom of Speech

Alonissos

cypran wrote 3 months ago: With unforgivable delay (let me tell you: WordPress app for iPhone really sucks!) I’m here to … more →

Tags: The places of my world, The people of my world, Sara, tozama, rosita, Greece, iPhone, novella, Ilaria

bgosling wrote 4 months ago: He thought Fante was his poet but his friends knew it was Frost. He took correspondence courses from … more →

Tags: slow day, Robert Frost

Qual livro mudou a sua vida? Por Marcos Espíndola

transitoriamente wrote 7 months ago:   Quando começaram a chegar as primeiras respostas a esta questão, o que notei foi que para a grande … more →

Tags: Literatura, transitoriamente, marcos espindola, DC, Machado de Assis, O Alienista

Bookworm Wednesday: John Fante

aninsideoutsock wrote 7 months ago: Who? John Fante What? Bukowski’s literary father, an italian migrant, and one of the best conf … more →

Tags: Bookworm Wednesday, bukowski, Confessional Literature, Henry Miller, J.D Salinger, Knut Hamsun

Centenário de John Fante

Georgina Spiggott wrote 8 months ago: Que também fez roteiros para Hollywood, oras. Vide Pelos Bairros do Vício (Walk on the Wild Side, 19 … more →

Tags: Anos 60, Posters

Centenário de John Fante

Georgina Spiggott wrote 8 months ago: Que também fez roteiros para Hollywood, oras. Vide Pelos Bairros do Vício (Walk on the Wild Side, 19 … more →

Tags: Anos 60, Posters

Centenário de John Fante

Georgina Spiggott wrote 8 months ago: Que também fez roteiros para Hollywood, oras. Vide Pelos Bairros do Vício (Walk on the Wild Side, 19 … more →

Tags: Anos 60, Posters

Centenário de John Fante

Georgina Spiggott wrote 8 months ago: Que também fez roteiros para Hollywood, oras. Vide Pelos Bairros do Vício (Walk on the Wild Side, 19 … more →

Tags: Anos 60, Posters

Cult books...

drewgum wrote 9 months ago: I’ll hold my hands up and admit it, this blog is a bit late this week. Now I’ll put them down again. … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, writing, Albert Sánchez Piñol, Big Cheese, dan fante, Douglas Adams, Richard Brautigan, Rupert Thomson

Ask The Dust

Kevin Wilder wrote 9 months ago: I started this one to break up the monotony of the early Dickens book I haven’t even made it a … more →

Tags: General, 2009 in Books, Fiction, Ask the dust


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