The Dust & Fog of L.A.’s Streets: The John Fante Tapes [One]
I think Ask the Dust is a much finer and much more artistic and versatile piece of work than Bandini. Bandini has the clumsiness of a guy who is learning to walk, kind of stumbles and is a little bit too obvious in the way he steps. He struts a little and there’s a little bit of macho in it even though it’s about a little kid or a little boy and it doesn’t have the humor and the wit that Ask the Dust has.
Did you feel when you finished that book, Ask the Dust, that you’d captured Los Angeles in a certain way?
I never asked myself that question, but I think I never asked myself that question because it was a loaded question and I knew what the answer would be.
John Fante in conversation with Ben Pleasants.
Discourses
openDemocracy is running Discourses, a new quarterly series of live art events in London. The first installment, “One or Several Wolves: multiplicities and packs in art,” taking its theme from Deleuze & Guattari, is on April 1 and features artist Jason Saager and novelist and art critic Travis Jeppesen reading from The Suiciders. Discourses @ […]