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Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 30, 2015 in Fiction, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss, Sci Fi Noir | 1 comment

READING AT BEYOND BAROQUE

I’M READING AT BEYOND BAROQUE, IN LA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11TH,...

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 29, 2015 in Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 1 comment

POSITIONS WITH WHITE ROSES

Positions with White Roses, by Ursule Molinaro is one of the best books I’ve read all year. (for profiles go here and here; the second link is to a site reviewing...

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 1, 2015 in Blogh, Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 1 comment

I DON’T EXIST!

I spent the weekend reading a book I had hoped would piss me off: MFA VS NYC, The Two Cultures of American Fiction, edited by Chad Harbach. It did piss me off I...

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 26, 2015 in Blogh, Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 1 comment

RON SUKENICK

I’ve just finished Ron Sukenick‘s book, Down and In:Life in the Underground. It chronicles life in the underground from about 1948 to 1984. This is a great...

Posted by jonfrankel on Jul 13, 2015 in Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 1 comment

QUEER AND ALONE

Frigid Irony and Overheated Satire: Queer and Alone The first thing I noticed about James Stahs’ Queer and Alone is that the narrator protagonist is...

Posted by jonfrankel on May 8, 2015 in Blogh, Marianne Hauser | 1 comment

Dominions: Marianne Hauser

Thanks to Miette, the Marianne Hauser website is up and running, with some content. It is an evolving site. I hope to get others to contribute. From now on my posts...

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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, writing as Buzz Callaway, Specimen Tank (Manic D. Press, 1993). Other unpublished novels include several versions of Endangered Species, a contemporary novel set in NYC in the 80’s, The Last Bender, and The Man Who Can’t Die, a sci fi noir set in the same world as GAHA: Babes of the Abyss. All are published in part or in full on this web site. You'll also find reviews and personal essays about food, art and culture. Frankel lives in upstate New York with his family and works as a library supervisor.