In 1980 Black Sparrow Press reissued John Fante's long-out-of-print 1939 novel, Ask the Dust, initiating a process that would lead in the next eleven years to the reissue of nearly all Fante's work. Only a few of his magazine stories have not been...

In the following essay, Collins delineates the major thematic concerns of the stories comprising Dago Red.

In the following essay, Collins investigates the role of baseball in Fante's novels and short fiction.

In the following essay, Weber contends that Fante's early fiction “offers a rich testament to how the often disabling powers of shame and self-hatred can somehow inspire the literary imagination.”