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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



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.