But mostly these later stories work to illuminate how good the early Bandini material is, how singular, how Romantically passionate his writing was, why John Fante so deserves to be read and placed among the great American voices of the twentieth century.” In short, he deserves “Another Look.” Come by on Tuesday, or in person or by zoom. “These smooth, neat stories are mainly interesting for the information they contain, like the episode in ‘Mama’s Dream’ when the aging, hard-drinking father tears apart the Fante character’s novel, which portrayed the writer’s father as a philandering drunkard. It is classic Fante that the narrator lusts after the well-bred yet idiotic girl, passing himself off as a professor until she notices his horrible hands.” The clever narrator works on the docks, has rough, calloused hands, yet also quotes Nietzsche and tells himself that he is going home to write his ‘thousand words’ – but can’t help getting caught up in the chase for women at the local dance hall.
Rob Spillman, writing in The Boston Review on the occasion of the publication of The Big Hunger: Stories 1932-1959, edited by Steve Cooper and published in 2000: “With ‘To Be a Monstrous Clever Fellow’ we enter Bandini territory, the place where Fante’s legacy does and should rest. “To Joyce, still fresh from Stanford, where ‘the winds of freedom blow,’ the whole dilemma smacked of another another century.” On July 31, 1937, they crossed the state line to Nevada and secretly married. Her mother’s reaction? “He looks so Italian,” she complained.
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He was the son of lower-class Italian immigrants, and fell for Joyce Smart of Placer County, “the Stanford-bred daughter of one of Roseville’s first families,” Cooper wrote in his biography, Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante (North Point Press, 2000). Stanford was more than on his mind, and more significant than a laugh.
But who knew Fante wrote a short story with Stanford on his mind? Says Cooper about the wistful Stanford references included in the pages above from his short story, ‘To Be a Monstrous Clever Fellow’: “Fante may have helped usher in The Book Haven’s first prison stabbing but something tells me his delirious ‘To Be a Monstrous Clever Fellow’ won’t fly. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. The ID is used only to identify the session for the statistics and is completely anonymous. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the_utmbcookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing _utmb cookies exists. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing _utma cookies exists. Stores a value ‘audioalert = true’ after the first Browsealoud audio alert. No personally identifiable data is stored. Stores an object containing user specific API settings for the Browsealoud toolbar such as voice and language selection, user preferences set in the toolbar settings panel and selected styles for word highlighting. Stores an object containing user specific settings for the Browsealoud toolbar such as dialog positions and button states. Used to remember your choice for analytical cookies. For example, remembering your display settings and online complaint form preferences. This helps the site to function smoothly during your visit.
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