
BLOG: Have a Literary Day in Downtown LA
When John Fante wrote Ask the Dust, a Depression-era story about a young man moving to LA to become a writer, climbing in and out of his hotel window, spending his first writer’s paycheck on linen suits and LA candy, and falling in love with a local waitress, he composed both one of the greatest comedic novels of the 20th century and a foundation myth for every young writer in Hollywood.