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Full of Life

Author: John Fante

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

    Um, his short stories are good; um, he wrote this book—'Full of Life,' um which was his most popular book; it wasn't a popular book, but it gets turned into a big movie that basically pays for everything. He once—so basically what happens is once 'Ask the Dust' is destroyed, he is sort of heartbroken and then just becomes a well-paid but little-known screenwriter; he has a nice house in Malibu paid for by movies that were never made, and was a frustrated novelist and sort of a drunk and a tortured dude as a result of this experience.