Publishers Weekly gives us a lineup of the most literary cemeteries in the world. [The picture above is Herman Melville’s grave at Woodlawn cemetery in The Bronx via us.] “John Fante was also sort of a hack and was always pissed off at the studios and always working on some deadline, on some piece of dreck for some producer.” Dan Fante to Royal Young at Interview, talking about his new book Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving. […]
The Fante Tapes
Over at 3:AM Magazine, Ben Pleasants has released the audio and text of a series of recordings he did with the late John Fante, author of one of my favorite books of all time, Ask The Dust. Pleasants says he released the tapes because he’s already dealt with “gangster academics” and felt that the entire series needed to be heard. The stuff about Bukowski is pretty classic. Especially the exchange between Pleasants and Fante’s wife, where Pleasants has to explain […]