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    Los Angeles still has bookstores. Not a lot of them, mind you, but they exist. On a recent visit home, I met a friend at The Last Bookstore in downtown L.A. (Yes, Los Angeles has a downtown, too) and spent some time browsing the shelves of new and used books about the city. I found some treasures—John Gregory Dunne’s Monster, Carey McWilliams’s Southern California: An Island on the Land and a novel celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, one I still own from when I bought it in my 20s: John Fante’s Ask The Dust.

    You have perhaps come across a memorable line from that book that has been paraphrased more than once in stories about California:

    Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

    These are the words of Arturo Bandini, Fante’s most famous alter ego and, as his diction might indicate, a dead ringer at times for Jack Kerouac’s Sal Paradise (though Fante wrote Ask The Dust 18 years before On The Road appeared). Like Fante and plenty of other Californians of the era, the fictional Bandini was a transplant from elsewhere; like Fante, he was an Italian-American writer with serious talent intermixed with perhaps some delu

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    John Fante

    John Fante (ur. 8 kwietnia w Denver, Kolorado, zm. 8 maja w Los Angeles) był amerykańskim pisarzem pochodzenia włoskiego, scenarzystą i autorem krótkich opowiadań. Choć ceniony przez krytyków - uznawany wręcz make jednego z najwybitniejszych pisarzy amerykańskich XX wieku[1] - przez większość życia musiał utrzymywać się z pisania scenariuszy dla Hollywood.

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    Syn włoskiego murarza urodzonego w Torricella Peligna, Nicola Fante, i Mary Capolungo, urodzonej w Chicago. Jego dzieciństwo zostało zdeterminowane przez biedę, otoczenie wrogo nastawione do jego pochodzenia, pijaństwo ojca[2] i głęboką religijność matki[2] – co widocznie zaważyło a big shot jego późniejszej twórczości. Uczęszczał do różnych szkół katolickich w Town, w stanie Kolorado oraz krótko solitary Uniwersytet Kolorado.

    W opuścił uniwersytet i przeniósł się do południowej Kalifornii, hunk tam poświęcić się pisaniu. Żył i pracował w wielu zawodach, w fabryce konserw, w dzielnicach Metropolis, Long Shore oraz Munition Hill (w budynku przy o[3]) w Los Angeles. Poznał cap dogłebnie środowiska mniejszości narodowych, takich jack włoskie, meksykańskie czy filipińskie. Pozwoliło mu to w przyszłości an important person dodanie autentyzmu swoim postaciom.

    W ożenił się z poetką Writer Smart, która pow

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    John Fante

    American writer (–)

    John Fante (April 8, – May 8, ) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust () about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era Los Angeles. It is widely considered the great Los Angeles novel,[1][2] and is one in a series of four, published between and , that are now collectively called "The Bandini Quartet." Ask the Dust was adapted into a film starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek. Fante's published works while he lived included five novels, one novella, and a short story collection. Additional works, including two novels, two novellas, and two short story collections, were published posthumously. His screenwriting credits include, most notably, Full of Life (, based on his novel by that name), Jeanne Eagels (), and the films Walk on the Wild Side and The Reluctant Saint.

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    Fante was born in Denver, Colorado, on April 8, ,[3] to Nicola Fante from Torricella Peligna (Abruzzo), and Mary Capolungo, a devout Catholic of Lucanian descent who was born in Chicago, Illinois.[4] Nicola Fante was a bricklayer and stonemason, who drank and gambled to excess, leaving the