City of Los Angeles officials this week named the corner of Fifth Street and Grand Avenue in downtown L.A. “John Fante Square” in tribute to the mid 20th century writer who's becoming a literary icon.

Most novelists rework their personal experiences into fiction to some extent, but John Fante was fairly obvious about it. In four books dedicated to the adventures of a character he named "Arturo ...

H e was a successful Hollywood screenwriter. His novels and short stories received critical acclaim. His reissued books sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Europe, reportedly giving him ...

Cruelty, racism, poverty, lies, perversity and oversexed self-delusion: Could this be the stuff of the most lyrical love letter ever addressed to the City of Angels? Yes, and it is “Ask the Dust,” the ...

John Fante’s literary alter ego Arturo Bandini strolls onto the opening pages of 1939’s “Ask the Dust” with little to do, scarcely any money, even less to eat and a lot to say. He is a frustrated ...

One-hundred years ago on April 8, 1909, writer John Fante was born in Boulder. In the first year of his life, he lived both at 1738 Walnut and at the corner of 9th and Arapahoe, now a senior center.

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In his current book, “An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America,” George De Stefano bemoans the fact that young Italian Americans know themselves only through skewed popular images: ...

Originally published in 1939, the book has been translated by Hassan Shekari who has previously rendered Fante’s novels “Dreams from Bunker Hill” and “Wait Until Spring, Bandini” for Persian readers. ...

Mohammadreza Shekari has translated the book that has been published by Ofogh Publishing House, Mehr reported. It is about Henry Molise, a 50-year-old, successful writer, who returns to the family ...