Reviews

    • Review of "Fante: A Memoir" by Pubisher's Weekly

      "...a frank, hard-hitting memoir about the curse that they all shared: heavy drinking."

       

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    • Review of "Short Dog" by The New York Times

      "...like Bukowski...Fante is an authentic literary outlaw."

       

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    • "Fante... electrifies."

       

      -The Los Angeles Times

    • ""Fante offers moments that brush the genius of Bukowski and Hubert Selby, Jr."

       

      -Elle Magazine

    • Review by Sud Quest (France)

      "I can describe Dan Fante's work in one word... sublime."

    • "...writing that is a violent lyrical blizzard...."

       

      -Uncut Magazine

    • "Dan fante. Remember the name."

       

      -The Beat Scene Magazine

    • ""The Fante's, father and son, have been a great new discovery for me in

      these last few years."

       

      "A truly great American novel."

    • "Man On Fire" by The Hollywood Investigator

      "When I asked him what he thought of his parents as parents he laughed out loud and said, "They should have traveled, or raised chickens. They never should have had children."

       

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    • Wrecking Ball Press on "A Gin Pissing..." & "Cork Sucker"

      "If you like your prose vodka-soaked, soulful and bleeding on the page,

      then Fante is your man."

       

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    • Review of "A Gin Pissing, Raw Meat, Dual Carburattor V-8 Son-of-a-Bitch from Los Angeles" by Erasing Clouds

      "...he literally aims with his works not only to scare, but also to scar his readers, biting their minds, hearts and souls with his words: indeed, Dan Fante's poems are a poetic ebb and flow revolving on the readers conscience. "

       

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    • Review of "The Boiler Room"

      "Ferociously Profane" / "Towering...Critic's Pick!" / "Absorbing...Hardcore" / "Simply Should Not Be Missed!" / "Boiler Room is a raw, raunchy, and intelligent look into success and greed, sin and salvation, will power, and the responsibility that power demands."

       

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