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the dream

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

The Dreamasleep in the rainby her sideon the ruined deskwords defythe day dies straightinto shuttersthe...

North Star Redux

North Star Redux

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 24, 2020 in Blogh, Poetry | 0 comments

I’m very excited to have published a poem, North Star in the Whiskey Tit Journal. The other work is...

chapter 11: The Elevator

chapter 11: The Elevator

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 18, 2020 in Sci Fi Noir, The Martian Princess | 0 comments

excerpt from The Martian Princess, Volume Three of Drift The line to the elevator was as disorderly as it...

Isle of Dogs Part 2

Isle of Dogs Part 2

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

this is from Part 2 of Isle of Dogs. forthcoming And then there was the library and Baby Sipsâ€™ languid...

interview with david Rovics

interview with david Rovics

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

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

ISLE OF DOGS

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

A NOTE TO THE READER: Isle of Dogs is Volume Two of Drift, a multivolume saga set in a world that was...

ithaca times profile

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

Cara Hoffman wrote this profile of me for the Ithaca Times. Cara and I have been friends since 1999, when I...

for doris, with love!

for doris, with love!

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 11, 2020 in Poetry | 2 comments

POEM FOR DORIS APPELBAUM Doris Appelbaum went on strike.She had had enough and wouldnâ€™t cookanother meal....

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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE

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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.