NewsSONOMA COUNTY BOOK FESTIVAL, Sat. Sept. 25: North Bay Area dwellers: I'll read from and talk about IN ENVY COUNTRY at the Sonoma County Book Festival, and would love to see you there. Bring friends and family; bring lunch!
Saturday, September 25– Cafe Azul 4th and B Streets, Santa Rosa – 12:30 p.m. For more info: www.socobookfest.org NEW STORY, called "A Bazillion Banana Republics," coming out in the Fall issue of Marco Polo Quarterly, an online literary journal.
Look for http: www.marcopoloquarterly.com INTERVIEW with ForeWord Reviews, top left!
FEATURE PIECE: the link "Frank Prose" offers a thoughtful piece about Joan's life and work, by Press Democrat writer Diane Peterson. FIRST-RATE REVIEW: the link "Coffee Spew Review" offers a lovely review of IN ENVY COUNTRY from Cambridge Review editor Bob Wake! READING GROUPS! Please e-mail Joan at the link at lower right. __________________________________________________ Excerpts from terrific reviews of IN ENVY COUNTRY: Coffee Spew Review: "Her stories combine rapturous surface detail and harrowing psychological acuity. . . ." ForeWord Magazine: "The author's precise and artful prose is there to perform a duty; it's a steadfast craft for a cast of wildly mottled characters. . . . These nine stories, on their face about what is observed, in close-up reveal that what is left undetected, undone, and unimagined is what resonates." Judy Budz in The Boston Globe: "[B]itingly ironic, provocative scenes of contemporary life, so complete that they will satisfy readers who typically grab 400-page novels . . . The art of these stories is in their telling . . . Frank hits precisely the right note. Often, the stories are funny . . . perceptive . . . wise." Elizabeth Fishel in The San Francisco Chronicle: "In Envy Country: offers the pleasures of a gossipy chat with an astute and clever friend. This friend also has a dark wit, a playful way with language and imagery . . . Joan Frank is a shrewd and, yes, frank observer. . . . Her sharp portraits and original way with words make these stories surprising and rewarding." Publishers Weekly: "The uneasy balance of power between male and female binds this sharp collection . . . Frank works every aspect of these stories with relentless energy, and readers will be sure to pay attention." The North Bay Bohemian: "Frank's stories follow those in the throes and woes of love and life. With one eye inside the workings of her characters and one observing from afar, In Envy Country sets a Raymond Carver tone..." _________________________ Other work out there: "France: Cake Frosting Country," an essay about the perception of place, appears in the current, Winter 2010 issue of Antioch Review. _________________________ "The More We Typed, the Better We Felt," an essay about the consolations of the writing life, appears in the summer 2009 Jabberwock. (Its title's a quote, used by kind permission, from the beloved poet Robert Bly.) _________________________ "Gumby, Frankenstein, Jakob, Rosamund," part of a symposium on the making of literary characters, appears in the 2009 issue of Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts. _________________________ "In Search of Heated Agreement," an essay about the hopeless subjectivity of reading taste, and "how dear we hold our private perception of the universe," appears in The Antioch Review, Spring 2009. __________________________ |
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