Category Archives: Fante

Reflections on dust

sleroyer wrote early on about her struggles with reading and how the class discussions inspired her to want to get more out of it, “to understand these books like some of [her] classmates.” And while I have always been a strong … Continue reading Continue reading

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A Page of Dust

Last class, we had a very interesting discussion about Fante’s Ask the Dust. I was pretty interested in it all, so I took some notes in order to remember what had been said. Planning for the future and stuff. I … Continue reading Continue reading

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Ashes to ashes

I loved this part: “That fool. Even his punctuation was bad.” Way to emasculate your rival, Bandini! It made me think of Eats, Shots and Leaves, the 2004 bestseller about a hardboiled panda on a crusade for correct punctuation. The … Continue reading Continue reading

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Ask the Dust

I’m having a hard time placing this in the hardboiled/noir context. It seems a bit of an anomaly, especially coming after Red Harvest. I see some connections. The first person narration is something of a noir trope, but Fante hardly … Continue reading Continue reading

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