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Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 14, 2024 in Blogh, Poetry | 0 comments

The Swans

The Swans Invisible nameless foes...

Posted by jonfrankel on Jun 8, 2021 in Blogh, Books, The Vietnam Project | 0 comments

HELL IN A VERY SMALL PLACE

The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975, by David W. P. Elliot. M.E. Sharp, Armonk, NY, 2003. I just finished David W. P....

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 13, 2021 in Blogh | 0 comments

Why Literature?

To My Mind, or Kinbotes: Essays on Literature By Omar Sabbagh Whiskey Tit Press, VT & NY 2021 Omar Sabbaghâ€™s To My Mind is a rarity in todayâ€™s literary world:...

Posted by jonfrankel on Feb 23, 2021 in Blogh, Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 0 comments

the jones men

The Jones Men, by Vern E Smith, is hands down one of the best crime novels Iâ€™ve ever read. Relentless and bloody, with minimalistic prose, it is a simple story about...

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 24, 2020 in Blogh, Poetry | 0 comments

North Star Redux

I’m very excited to have published a poem, North Star in the Whiskey Tit Journal. The other work is terrific, and it’s great to appear alongside so much...

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 16, 2020 in Blogh, The Vietnam Project, Writing | 0 comments

go while you can

This is a video of an Ithaca Spring Writes virtual event I did in late November, Mary Lorson’s Of Course. She reads and then I read, about 20 minutes in. My piece...

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About Jon Frankel

This website is dedicated to my poetry and fiction. The novels, The Man Who Can't Die, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss and The Isle of Dogs are published by Whiskey Tit Press. Writing as Buzz Callaway, I'm the author of Specimen Tank and The Last Bender. Specimen Tank is published by Manic D Press. The Last Bender is published on this website. Currently I'm working on The Vietnam Project, a travel memoir about Vietnam and its long history. I also write book reviews and personal essays about food, art and culture. I live in upstate New York with my family and am a retired stacks manager.