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"Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon Magazine

"To me, he's what radio is really for... his show makes me think he's getting to some great truth... so completely captivating and just unlike anything else."

David Sedaris, writer

"[Frank] travels in the emotional landscape of Bergman and Fellini; there's a tension and sense of mystery halfway between Kafka and Chandler... and a satiric edge worthy of Firesign Theatre and Woody Allen... No one else in radio is doing what Frank does."

The Washington Post

"A strange, different, wondrously offbeat, frequently hilarious, altogether brilliant piece of work..There's never been anything quite like it...Joe Frank is an audio Fellini."

The Los Angeles Times

"Joe Frank's often bizarre scenarios for the mind are decidedly offbeat radio fare...part surreal satire, part bizarre meditation, part fever dream."

Los Angeles Daily News

"The world of Joe Frank is a wildly entertaining surrealistic universe...hilarious, unsettling, zany, powerful, moving and perhaps the most unique, inventive and effective use of radio since Orson Welles convinced much of America there was a War of the Worlds."

The L.A. Weekly

"[Joe Frank] is one of the great, original radio performers. He's created a sound and style for himself - a complete aesthetic that's entirely his own. I first heard him when I was 19 and it changed everything for me. His work demonstrated the intensity and emotion that the medium is capable of; ingenious…fantastic."

Ira Glass, This American Life

"The perfect Joe Frank experience is driving down an unfamiliar highway alone at night. You turn on your radio and are greeted by a lush, resonant voice that lulls you into a seemingly simple tale of love: a man at an airport saying goodbye to his wife over the phone, which abruptly turns into a vision of betrayal, alienation and death - often from obscure disease - all brought about by some profound personal failing, which is redeemed at the last moment by a nearly transcendent moment of joy."

Salon

"[Joe Frank is] the most imaginative, literate monologist in radio today... If a microphone could capture the nether recesses of the modern psyche, it would sound like Frank's absurd comical excursions: Radio Vertigo."

The Village Voice

"Frank [is] the apostle of radio noire... His free-form radio dramas... are sometimes moving, often funny, but always manage to confound the listeners' expectations. A maestro of verité, Frank exploits the power of radio..."

Rolling Stone

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A House for Mr Biswas, V.S. Naipaul

A Psychiatrist’s Casebook – DSM-III

Against Nature, Huysmans

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis, Freud

Death in Venice and other stories, Thomas Mann

Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People

Hear Us O Lord from Heaven,Lowry

Herzog, Bellow

In a Free State, Naipaul

Inside the Third Reich, Speer

Invisible Cities, Calvino

Less than One, Brodsky

Medieval Epics

Memoir, Neruda

Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Bellow

Native Realm, Milosz

Ninety-two in the Shade, McGuane

On Being Blue, Gass

Rassalas Poems and Selected Prose, Johnson

Spandau, The Secret Diaries, Speer

The Case Worker, Konrad

The Creed of a Priest of Savoy

The Image and other Stories, Singer

The Mimic Men, Naipaul

The Mystic Masseur

The Pentitent, Singer

The Politics of Experience, Laing

The Portable Milton

The Spanish Inquisition, Plaidy

The Story of Our Civilization, Ralph

The Suffrage of Elvira, Naipaul

The Theory and Practice of Hell, Kogon

The World as I Found It, Duffy