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Posted by jonfrankel on Jan 11, 2021 in Fiction | 0 comments

the dream

The Dreamasleep in the rainby her sideon the ruined deskwords defythe day dies straightinto shuttersthe dream dares to beis wrappedand warped by...

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 19, 2020 in Fiction, ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir | 0 comments

Isle of Dogs Part 2

this is from Part 2 of Isle of Dogs. forthcoming And then there was the library and Baby Sips’ languid lessons, question-and-answer sessions seated on harem cushions in...

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 18, 2020 in Fiction, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss, ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir, The Last Bender, The Man Who Can't Die | 0 comments

interview with david Rovics

David Rovics, a musician, writer, and independent producer of conversations with artists, interviewed me today for his...

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 14, 2020 in Fiction, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss, ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir, The Last Bender, The Man Who Can't Die | 0 comments

ISLE OF DOGS

A NOTE TO THE READER: Isle of Dogs is Volume Two of Drift, a multivolume saga set in a world that was first described in the novel The Man Who Can’t Die...

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 13, 2020 in Blogh, Fiction, ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir | 4 comments

ithaca times profile

Cara Hoffman wrote this profile of me for the Ithaca Times. Cara and I have been friends since 1999, when I read her her book Running for the first time. I fell in love...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 30, 2020 in Fiction | 0 comments

sinclair/richardson

This is the review of Dorothy Richardson’s novel Pilgrimage, published in the Egoist by May Sinclair in 1918. At the time Richardson had only written the first...

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Jon Frankel is a poet and novelist, the author of Gaha: Babes of the Abyss, (Whiskey Tit Press, 2014), and The Man Who Can't Die (Whiskey Tit Press, 2016), and writing as Buzz Callaway, Specimen Tank (Manic D. Press, 1993). Forth coming is Isle of Dogs, a prequel to GAHA: Babes of the Abyss, to be published by Whiskey Tit Press in four parts. Jon's poetry is published exclusively on this website. You'll also find reviews and personal essays about food and culture. Jon Frankel lives in upstate New York with his family and is retired after 27 years of working at Cornell University Library as a book mover and stacks manager.