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
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