Earlier this week I read a Huffington Post piece about the writer Marie Calloway. It had a provocative title: “MARIE CALLOWAY PUSHES THE BOUNDERIES OF WHAT’S...
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Read MoreNIGHTWOOD By Djuna Barnes Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes, is one of the books I love best. I remember reading it at age 19 on the subway late at night. It was on the...
Read MoreOH PURE AND RADIANT HEART By Lydia Millet Soft Skull Press 2005 I don’t read books about writing usually but Stephen King’s ON Writing is an exception. In that book...
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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