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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 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
