Celebrating John Fante
Even if he were alive, John Fante probably wouldn’t have attended Zócalo’s panel celebrating his 100th birthday at the Hammer Museum. “I wish I could say if he were alive today there’s no place he would rather be,” joked moderator David Kipen, director of literature at the National Endowment of the Arts. “But as some of you know, the Dodgers are playing the Padres down the coast tonight.” Still, Kipen joined the panelists — including KCRW’s Frances Anderton, Fante biographer Stephen Cooper, Esotouric’s Richard Schave, and Fante’s children Victoria Fante-Cohen …
