Heretics: John Fante

From The Creators Podcast · 21:30

Show by Rainier Wylde

John Fante (1909–1983):John Fante was an American novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter best known for Ask the Dust and his semi-autobiographical novels featuring Arturo Bandini. Born in Denver, Colorado, to Italian immigrants, Fante grew up in Boulder in a working-class Catholic family. He moved to Los Angeles as a young man, working various jobs while pursuing a literary career. His first published novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, appeared in 1938, followed by Ask the Dust in 1939. Although his fiction received critical attention, Fante earned much of his living writing screenplays in Hollywood. His novels explored poverty, ambition, ethnic prejudice, Catholic upbringing, and the lives of immigrants in Depression-era America. Largely overlooked for decades, his work found a new readership when Charles Bukowski called Fante his god. He dictated his final novel, Dreams from Bunker Hill, to his wife Joyce, who helped him complete it in 1982, a year before his death.For More:Ask the Dust-John FanteFull of Life: A Biography of John Fante — Stephen CooperJoin The Creators CollectiveWant to go beyond listening to stories about creators and start living like one? Coming up November 15: MAKE BELIEVE, a masterclass exploring the lives and imaginations of Jim Henson and Fred Rogers, and what these two remarkable men can teach us about taking play seriously.Join The Creators Collective →The Book Club — Coming February 2027What if the next book you joined a club to read was the one you haven't written yet?This February, I'm launching The Book Club, a four-month guided experience for people who have always wanted to write a book but haven't quite gotten around to it. Whether it's a novel, memoir, poetry collection, or something else entirely, we'll move together from the first page toward a finished manuscript. You'll have guidance, encouragement, accountability, and a community of people making their own books alongside you.Enrollment opens in December Join the waitlist now to be among the first to hear when registration opens.Join The Book Club Waitlist →

More episodes of The Creators Podcast

More episodes

PodSearch is a free, independent podcast search engine. Read about PodSearch, the privacy policy or contact us.