Joe in the news

April 5, 1983 Joe Frank: Dramas With a Twist for NPR By Richard Harrington in The Washington Post November 22, 1987 Radio Noir: On the Air, a Voice Like Dirty Honey Tells Stories Grim as Nightmares. If You Think Radio Is All Top 40, You Haven't Heard Joe Frank. By Jamie Diamond in Los Angeles Times March 15, 1988 Radio's Prince of Darkness Rules the Freeways By Kathleen Hughes in The Wall Street Journal August 4, 1988 On Air: Joe Frank's Radio Makes Waves By Drew Wilson in Chicago Reader September 1, 1989 Talk Radio: If video killed the radio star, why is Joe Frank alive? By David Carpenter in Spin March 22, 1989 Frankly, Joe's Branching Out By Dick Lochte in Los Angeles Magazine 'Rent a Family' Pays Price for Taking on a Radio Play By Sylvie Drake in Los Angeles Times March 24, 1989 Rent a Family hits Home on Issue of Commitment By Tom Stringer in Los Angeles Reader April 25, 1989 Joe Frank Sets Radio Voice, Vision on Stage By Robert Koehler in Los Angeles Times May 5–11, 1989 Mr. Insomnia - the art of high anxiety By Steven Mikulan in LA Weekly September 1, 1989 View from the top By Kate Lynch in Penthouse November 1, 1989 The Dark Progress of Joe Frank By Ralph Rugoff in LA Style April 1, 1990 Press release, KCRW 1990 April From KCRW Date Unknown Douglas Mcgowan's interview of Joe By Douglas McGowan August 29, 1997 Signing off: Joe Frank is Off the Air By Steve Lowery in LA Weekly March 7, 2000 ‘Public radio's bad dream’ By Susan Emerling in Salon Joe Frank conjures up the nightmares that "This American Life" and "Prairie Home Companion" have when they go home at night. June 26, 2005 Joe Frank, Radio's Brilliant Purveyor of Postmodern Noir, Has Been in the Hospital By Andrew Hearst May 27, 2008 Mid-'80s Martin Scorsese Classic Also His Best Accidental NPR Rip-Off From Gawker The Scandalous Origins of Martin Scorsese's After Hours By Andrew Hearst September 17, 2008 Joe Frank: off the radio By Kristine McKenna in LA Weekly February 2, 2011 On the Media: Joe Frank gets personal By James Rainey in Los Angeles Times The radio dramatist explains where some of this darkness comes from (but won't get into particulars on why he left KCRW). March/April 2013 Jonathan Goldstein's interview with Joe By Jonathan Goldstein in The Believer January 16, 2018 LA Observed Notes: Joe Frank RIP By Kevin Roderick in LA Observed Madeleine Brand remembers Joe on KCRW's ‘Press Play’ By Madeleine Brand on KCRW January 18, 2018 KCRW remembers radio artist Joe Frank By Avishay Artsy Joe Frank and football uniforms By Frances Anderton on KCRW KCRW's Frances Anderton gets Joe's opinions about football uniforms. January 19, 2018 ‘Joe Frank Signs Off’ By Mark Oppenheimer in Slate Joe's final interview. Joe Frank: The Known-Unknown By Brooke Gladstone on On the Media ‘Joe Frank, Spinner of Strange Radio Tales, Is Dead at 79’ By James Rainey in Los Angeles Times January 24, 2018 ‘Joe Frank, who pushed the boundaries of radio storytelling, dies at 79’ By Steve Marble in Los Angeles Times January 31, 2018 ‘In Memoriam: The Real Joe Frank’ By Esmé Gregson in The Argonaut Newsweekly

Spin Magazine, September 1, 1989

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Special Thanks
I thank Simson Garfinkel, who maintains a page of articles about Joe Frank and provides scanned PDFs as the only source for some of these articles.