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Ask the Dust

Author: John Fante

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Mentions in Episodes:

  • Episode: Timothy Denevi on Hunter S Thompson and the Art of Journalism
    Podcast: The Daily Stoic

    No, I'm going to read 'Ask the Dust.' I have that in the story; it's one of the great novels of all time. Uh, crazy story which we should talk about; he has a bunch, maybe '1933 was a Bad Year,' 'The Road to Los Angeles.'

  • Episode: Timothy Denevi on Hunter S Thompson and the Art of Journalism
    Podcast: The Daily Stoic

    And the legend, it's true and not true; but the legend is 'Ask the Dust' sells out its first printing or is selling through its first printing in a good clip. It would have been a huge book; this distracted the publisher, sucks up its marketing budget, which they spend on legal fees, which they then lose, and 'Ask the Dust' is then forgotten until, yeah, 1970, whatever, when Charles Bukowski discovers the lone surviving copy in the Los Angeles Public Library.