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Dark Matter

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 10, 2013 in Poetry | 1 comment

Dark Matter It masses like a day spent alone No book no radio no phone. Like a December cloud about to blow...

Joel Copenhagen

Joel Copenhagen

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 15, 2013 in Blogh | 14 comments

Joel Copenhagen died on August 13th, in the morning. He was 72. It is hard to struggle through the...

PORGIES

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 8, 2013 in Blogh, Food | 0 comments

Grilled Whole Porgies One of my favorite scenes in the movie Chinatown, indeed of any movie, is the one...

SPICY MEAT PATTIES

SPICY MEAT PATTIES

Posted by jonfrankel on Jun 22, 2013 in Food | 1 comment

For a couple of years now I have been making spiced patties on the grill, out of varying mixtures of ground...

CHINESE RED COOKED OXTAILS

CHINESE RED COOKED OXTAILS

Posted by jonfrankel on Jun 17, 2013 in Food | 0 comments

RED COOKED OXTAIL A while ago I was buying meat from Autumn Harvest farm and saw in their cooler two...

MARIE CALLOWAY

Posted by jonfrankel on May 31, 2013 in Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 0 comments

Earlier this week I read a Huffington Post piece about the writer Marie Calloway. It had a provocative...

THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN

THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN

Posted by jonfrankel on May 29, 2013 in Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 0 comments

THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN By Christina Stead Â Christina Steadâ€™s The Man Who Loved Children is one of...

AGAINST A NOVELIST’S METAPHOR

AGAINST A NOVELIST’S METAPHOR

Posted by jonfrankel on May 23, 2013 in Poetry | 1 comment

I wrote this poem in response to an interview I heard on NPR with a Granta editor. He had edited an issue...

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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.