The Bandini Quartet

Author: John Fante

Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, the author’s crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy…..Read More

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The Road to Los Angeles

From the Editorial Note:This novel introduces Fante's alter ego Arturo Bandini who reappears in Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), Ask the Dust (1939), and Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982). The… Continue Reading Posted in: Autobiographical Fiction, Bildungsromans, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Juvenile Delinquents

Hollywood

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, United States

Post Office

Henry Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious,… Continue Reading Posted in: Letter Carriers, Man Woman Relationships

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Fiction. John Fante recalls his first novel, recently republished by Black Sparrow Press: "Now that I am an old man I cannot look back upon WAIT UNTIL SPRING, BANDINI without… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Colorado, Contemporary American Fiction, Fiction, Italian American Families

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness was a paperback collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, first published by City Lights Publishers in 1972.[1] It was the… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction

Ask the Dust

Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel. While basking in the glory of having had a single short story published in a small magazine, he… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic Coming of Age Fiction, Classic Literary Fiction, Fiction, United States, Young Men

West of Rome

West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was Frank Gagliano,… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction

Ham on Rye

Follows the path of the author's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism.… Continue Reading Posted in: Autobiographical Fiction, Manners And Customs, Teenage Boys

1933 Was a Bad Year

Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming an American sports hero. This teenage southpaw aspires to big leagues,… Continue Reading Posted in: Bildungsromane, Children's eBooks, Contemporary American Fiction, Depressions, Fiction

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