2022 Readings - prior Interviews/Events
One of the great honors and joys of my life was to be able to talk at some length with Simon about his wondrous novel, THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE. (Everybody, please buy a copy and have pen and highlighter ready to mark it up like gangbusters.)
Courtesy of--and all thanks to---the gracious hosting bookstore MAGERS & QUINN, Minneapolis!
A probing Q&A exchange, on the gestating and making of JUNIPER STREET
Alison and Joan get down to it: Make way for the 5 commandments!
This interview seemed to receive a lot of love in social media. Have a look!
Joan Frank and Peg Alford Pursell talk about letters between authors...
Joan and Suzanne reflect together...
An hour of terrific discussion...
Selected readings, and a casual talk with OCA's president Patrick Fanning.
INTERVIEWS
PERSPECTIVES: Try to Get Lost with Joan Frank
Joan talks with Alison B of Meraki Radio, in Davis, CA, about travel, essays, life, and the world.
Joan reads from, and talks with Suzanne about, the collected essays.
"I love short novels: love the clean, finite, stretched, framed canvas of them; love their troublesome neither-nor-ness."
Joan reads from the novellas, and talks with host Suzanne Lang.
A substantive Q and A with Kristine Morris of FOREWORD REVIEWS about TRY TO GET LOST!
Joan reads from BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO for Creative Writing students at CSU Chico
Regal House Publishing will publish Joan's newest novel, THE OUTLOOK FOR EARTHLINGS, in October 2020.