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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 I’ve ever read. Relentless and bloody, with minimalistic prose, it is a simple story about a...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 27, 2020 in Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 2 comments

may sinclair

Recently I stumbled on the English author May Sinclair (1863-1946) in the back pages of Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage. My copy of Pilgrimage is published by Virago,...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 9, 2018 in Marianne Hauser, Poetry | 2 comments

ICU

ICU A place lit by glacial dynamite A palace built of tears. The glass weeps rain And the walls are full of sorrow. A castle-derelict of undone duty The exasperating...

Posted by jonfrankel on Feb 7, 2018 in Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 1 comment

A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

I just finished two books, The Social Origins of Language, a book of essays responding to the work of Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney, edited and introduced by...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 1, 2017 in Blogh, Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 4 comments

THE CONFIDENCE MAN

I have been on medical leave for three months. I had three tears in my rotator cuff repaired and biceps reattached. Minor surgery with a major recovery. That’s...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 27, 2016 in Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 0 comments

TWO GREAT BOOKS

I’ve read two great books recently. They are God’s Middle Finger by Richard Grant, and the other is The Warren, By Brian Evenson. Reviews follow (the...

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About Jon Frankel

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.