  Tools of the Trade  Chisels, spades and threads ploughs and boots peat forks caked with mud are nightingales that linger beyond their father’s flat Midwestern...
Read MoreCHAPTER TWENTY-NINE          “They got dental!†Church said, applying margarine pats to a corn muffin, subjecting both to a furious scrutiny. His...
Read MoreBoredom in Art  Josh Corey’s remarks about his own boredom with the novel remind me of David Foster Wallace’s boredom, discussed at length in the recent New...
Read MoreCamera Ready  I see you comrade burning in the clear air your clean eye tipped up by the flames rushing skyward by the updrafts by the impetus of all this combusted...
Read MoreMyth in Poetry  When poets reject myth they are rejecting poetry itself, since poetry and myth are intimately intertwined. A poetry without myth is a poetry of the...
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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE
"Frankel once again produces a thrilling futuristic dystopia which includes white-knuckle action, lots of sex and drugs, and a post-menopausal white-haired research scientist heroine who is trying to save the world from her own mad genius." Buy on Amazon | Buy on Whiskey Tit
GAHA: BABES OF THE ABYSS
"It's hard to put down this book, full of Frankel's autodidact ramblings and wild flights of language." Buy on Amazon | Buy on Whiskey Tit
SPECIMEN TANK
"There's more truth in this book than anyone in the biotech industries would care to admit. Plus, it's funny as hell." Buy on Amazon