Dan Fante

Mooch

In New York, Bruno Dante's life is a train wreck. A call comes from L.A.: his screenwriter father is in a coma and not expected to live. The next three weeks on the streets of Los Angeles will alter Bruno Dante forever. In this novelistic homage to his father (Fante is the son of famed California novelist John Fante), Dan Fante expresses his hero's and his own bewilderment with a rawness, crudeness and shock, which never stifles the tenderness and compassion he has for his characters. Originally published to acclaim in France, this is the first US edition of Fante's debut novel.

Chump Change

‎مذكرات فانتي‎

"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86’d, Chump Change, and Mooch, their difficult relationship as father and son evolved in a household where love and literary artistry were often overshadowed by emotional violence. Fante is the story of Dan’s struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his family’s dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the man—and the calling—that once had driven him away.

A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving

Fante

After hitchhiking from L.A. to New York, Bruno Dante, an inspired young playwright, struggles with depression and alcoholism as he tries to stay afloat in Manhattan's sea of cynicism and alienation. Original.

Spitting Off Tall Buildings

When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, fresh from the nuthouse, must head to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion in Dan Fante’s Chump Change. Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86’d, Chump Change follows Bruno through the tension and stress of facing his family—and the inevitable, pain-dulling drinking that lands him naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet. Chump Change is “an honest misfit’s view of America far too few know.” (John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman).

A Novel

In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again.

86'd

Jaywalking

Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86’d, Dan Fante’s Spitting Off Tall Buildings is the story of aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, who leaves sunny Los Angeles for cold, hard New York City. Falling into a string of temporary, dead-end jobs, punctuated by meaningless affairs and intense drinking, Bruno has almost had enough when a sudden event offers him the opportunity to get his life back on track—unless screwing up, like drinking, proves a habit too difficult to shake. In prose steeped with rage and surprising humor, Fante presents a point of view of America that only the true outlaw will recognize.

From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a gritty detective novel featuring JD Fiorella, an ex-private investigator who's bent on avenging his friend's murder. Failed private investigator JD Fiorella was a pro at finding trouble. Mixing it up with the wrong people in New York, he escaped to L.A.—only to hit rock-bottom after too many nightmares and too much booze. Now forty-six and sober, JD is working hard to get it together. Living in Malibu at his mother's house in Point Dume, he's got a new job selling used cars with his friend Woody and a new girlfriend. But just as things are looking up, JD discovers a gruesome murder. Now the ex-private detective has to make a choice. Determined to exact vengeance, he follows a twisting trail of clues that leads him to unexpected truths about himself and his new life—and to a psychopathic killer with an eerie connection to his past. And, as JD soon learns, this time there's no easy way out.

Point Doom

Collected Poems, 1983-2002

A Gin-pissing-raw-meat-dual-carburetor-V8-son-of-a-bitch from Los Angeles

A Novel (P.S.)

Ayant connu quelques déboires comme détective privé à New York, JD Fiorella est rentré se faire une santé au pays, plus précisément Point Dume, à Malibu, Californie. Tout a l'air de s'arranger pour lui : il a trouvé un job chez un revendeur de Toyota d'occase et Maman – 81 ans, une flopée de chats et un sale caractère – le loge en attendant mieux. Il pointe, et drague, aux Alcooliques Anonymes. Tout se gâte lors d'une rencontre musclée avec Sydnye, fille 100 % cinglée d'un producteur psychopathe. Et lorsque son vieux pote Woody est assassiné de manière franchement gore. Privé un jour, privé toujours : JD entreprend d'enquêter et met un doigt (cinq, de fait) dans un engrenage fatal. À la fois hilarant, destroy et d'une violence corsée, Point Dume est, s'il faut le classer, un lointain cousin des romans de Jerry Stahl. Et, comme dit Michael Connelly, " si écrire, c'est combattre, alors Dan Fante peut tenir quinze rounds et rester debout ". Né en 1944 à Los Angeles, Dan Fante est le fils de John Fante, auteur culte américain d'origine italienne. À 45 ans, il a commencé à écrire des textes – romans autobiographiques, poèmes, mémoires – inspirés par son expérience de la drogue et de l'alcool. Publiés par 13e Note, ils sont repris en format poche chez Points. Dan Fante vit à Los Angeles. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Samuel Todd

Point Dume

Après quelques déboires comme détective privé à New York, JD Fiorella part se refaire une santé à Point Dume, Californie. Sans le sou, il atterrit chez sa vieille et irascible maman, astrologue de 81 ans, avant de devenir un assidu des Alcooliques Anonymes et vendeur de voitures d'occasion. Tout semble s'arranger, jusqu'à ce qu'il rencontre Sydnye, fille d'un producteur psychopathe. Et quand son vieil ami Woody est sauvagement assassiné, JD décide de mener l'enquête et met le doigt dans un engrenage fatal.

Ayant connu quelques déboires comme détective privé à New York, JD Fiorella est rentré se faire une santé au pays, plus précisément Point Dume, à Malibu, Californie. Tout a l'air de s'arranger pour lui : il a trouvé un job chez un revendeur de Toyota d'occase et Maman - 81 ans, une flopée de chats et un sale caractère - le loge en attendant mieux. Il pointe, et drague, aux Alcooliques Anonymes. Tout se gâte lors d'une rencontre musclée avec Sydnye, fille 100 % cinglée d'un producteur psychopathe. Et lorsque son vieux pote Woody est assassiné de manière franchement gore. Privé un jour, privé toujours : JD entreprend d'enquêter et met un doigt (cinq, de fait) dans un engrenage fatal. A la fois hilarant, destroy et d'une violence corsée, Point Dume est, s'il faut le classer, un lointain cousin des romans de Jerry Stahl. Et, comme dit Michael Connelly, «si écrire, c'est combattre, alors Dan Fante peut tenir quinze rounds et rester debout».

Charles Bukowski

Jack Kerouac

Lewis Mumford

Jorge Luis Borges

Robert Darnton

Robert Frost

Antonio Lastra

Juan Arabia

Emmanuel Taub

Neil Leadbeater

Martin Bates

El segundo número de Buenos Aires Poetry incluye una extensa entrevista a Robert Darnton, en la que se abordan temas tales como la poesía y sus ilimitaciones simbólicas, Arthur Rimbaud y la bohemia francesa del Marqués de Sade y el Marqués de Pellport, el campo de la crítica literaria y las ciencias sociales, y su breve disputa con Roger Chartier; además los ensayos de"El Ruiseñor de Coleridge" y "PosData a la Generación Beat" de Juan Arabia, y el texto inédito de Jorge Luis Borges sobre "James Macpherson y el origen escocés del movimiento romántico". Completan en materia de crítica la traducción del prólogo de Lewis Mumford, y su específico trabajo sobre Melville, y los respectivos aportes de Antonio Lastra "Rimbaud Occidental", Emmanuel Taub y su trabajo "Poesía y Revelación", y un trabajo introductorio a "Lewis Mumford" escrito por Hernán Bayón. En materia de poesía, incluye las traducciones hasta ahora inéditas en nuestra lengua del poema "Fante" de Charles Bukowski, "Otoño Seco", de Kennet Rexroth, y "Estrellas" de Rober Frost, "Go Back" de Jack Kerouac, y una selección de poemas de Dan Fante de su colección de poemas "A Gin Pissin...", además de los aportes de Neil Leadbeater y Martin Bates.

Buenos Aires Poetry N°2

John Fante

John Ashbery

Derek Tatton

El primer número de Buenos Aires Poetry incluye una entrevista realizada por Juan Arabia a John ASHBERY (máximo exponente de la escuela poética neoyorquina), material poético inédito de Dan FANTE y un estudio crítico sobre Jack KEROUAC, el Rock and Roll y la Profecía Whitmaniana. Además, una entrevista al director de la Fundación Raymond Williams, Derek TATTON, que con la ayuda de la Sociedad Raymond Williams (Nottingham Trent University, University of Birmingham) analiza las convergencias y balances de los estudios culturales en la época actual. En materia de poesía incluye la traducción al español del poema "Hotel Lautréamont", del mismo ASHBERY.

Buenos Aires Poetry N°1

In eight brutally honest short stories Dan Fante takes the traditional cab driver 'knowledge' to a deeper place fuelled by raw emotion, wine guzzling existentialism and fleetingly hopeful poetic epiphanies.

Corksucker

In Mooch, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is finally sober, and has become the best boiler-room salesman in L.A. But Dan Fante’s anti-hero can’t keep a good thing going. Leaping headfirst into an impossibly destructive love-hate relationship with the addictive ex-stripper Jimmi Valiente, Bruno finds it’s not long at all before his world begins to spiral out of control…again.With prose that seeps with brutal aggression and biting wit, Fante portrays the unavoidable self-destruction of a man whose inner demons won’t allow him to live within the limitations of society.

"In the freewheeling, debaucherous tradition of Charles Bukowski, a taxi driver's stories from the streets of lowlife Los Angeles. Dan Fante lived the stories he wrote. His voice has the immediacy of a stranger of the next barstool, of a friend who lives on the edge. As he writes in Short Dog (the title comes from street slang for a half-pint of alcohol): I had been back working a cabbie gig as a result of my need for money. And insanity. Hack driver is the only occupation I know about with no boss, and because I have always performed poorly at supervised employment, I returned to the taxi business. The upside, now that I was working again, was that my own boozing was under control and I was on beer only, except for my days off.s"--

Dan Fante

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