John Fante's Ask the Dust (eBook)

lt;b>Stephen Cooper (Edited By)
Stephen Cooper is Professor of English, California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante (Angel City Press, 2005).

Clorinda Donato (Edited By)
Clorinda Donato is the George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach. She co-wrote The “Encyclopédie Méthodique” in Spain.

Introduction | 1

1. New Approaches to John Fante’s Ask the Dust

From the Particular to the Universal: Vittorini’s Italian
Adaptation of Ask the Dust | 15
Valerio Ferme

When Spirituality Ebbs and Flows: Religion and Diasporic
Alienation in Ask the Dust | 43
Suzanne Manizza Roszak

“Sad Flower in the Sand”: Camilla Lopez and the Erasure
of Memory in Ask the Dust | 58
Meagan Meylor

“A Ramona in Reverse”: Writing the Madness of the Spanish
Past in Ask the Dust | 83
Daniel Gardner

2. Sibling Arts: Ask the Dust in Dance, Music,
the Graphic Novel, and French

Dancing with the Dust: Translating Ask the Dust to the Stage | 111
J’aime Morrison
Ask the Lyrics: John Fante in Music | 127
Chiara Mazzucchelli

Watch Out or You’ll End up in My Novel: The Lost World
of Ask the Dust | 145
Robert Guffey
Don’t Ask the French | 157
Philippe Garnier

3. Ask the Dust and Its Effects: Readers and Writers Respond

Amid the Dust | 167
Miriam Amico

The Passion That Became a Festival | 177
Giovanna DiLello

I Had Bandini: Reading Ask the Dust in Prison | 193
Joel Williams

Writing in the Dust | 201
Alan Rifkin

How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel | 213
Ryan Holiday

4. Ask the Dust and Its Due: Two Filmmakers and Bukowski Pay Tribute

Interview with Robert Towne | 237
Nathan Rabin

Letters from Los Angeles | 245
Jan Louter

“My Dear Bukowski,” “Hello John Fante”: Preface to Ask the Dust | 261
John Fante and Charles Bukowski

5. The Attic, the Archive, and Beyond

From Family to Institutional Memory: A Conversation
with Stephen Cooper | 273
Teresa Fiore

Prelude to “Prologue to Ask the Dust” | 281
Stephen Cooper

Goodbye, Bunker Hill | 290
John Fante

The Road to John Fante’s Los Angeles | 296
Stephen Cooper

Acknowledgments | 315

List of Contributors | 319

Bibliography | 325

Index | 331