Soaked in booze and sadness psychotic eruptions and hilarity.Willy Vlautin In the freewheeling debaucherous tradition of Charles Bukowski a taxi drivers stories from the streets of lowlife Los Angeleswith an introduction by Willy Vlautin. Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw.The New York Times. Dan Fante lived the stories he wrote. His voice has the immediacy of a stranger of the next barstool of a friend who lives on the edge. As he writes in Short Dog the title is street slang for a ha