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
June 16, 1988
‘Joe Frank's three-part series “Rent a Family” won the Corp. for Public Broadcasting's Radio Program Award for best performance.’
from the Los Angeles Times
August 4, 1988
On Air: Joe Frank's Radio Makes Waves
By Drew Wilson in Chicago Reader
December 26, 1988
‘Joe Frank Adds Own Realism to Radio Drama ’
By KRISTINE McKENNA for the Los Angeles Times
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 23, 1989
‘Radio's Joe Frank Ventures Onto Stage’
By JANICE ARKATOV in the Los Angeles Times
Joe brings “Rent a Family” to the stage
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
1990
‘One-armed guitarists and other “Works in Progress”’ - an interview with Joe
Rob Bates's interview with Joe for “Boston Rock” - sometime in 1990
April 1, 1990
Press release, KCRW 1990 April
From KCRW
1991 January
Irwin Chusid interviews Joe Frank for WFMU, 1991 January
November 6, 1993
‘Joe Frank Is Quite Happy Being Back “In the Dark” : Radio: After a two-year hiatus from KCRW-FM, the writer-performer has returned to continue his exploration of love, death and values.’ By STEVE APPLEFORD in the Los Angeles Times
1994
Douglas Mcgowan's interview of Joe
By Douglas McGowan
March 1, 1994
‘BOOK REVIEW / SHORT STORIES : Vivid Glimpses of Bleak and Isolated Lives : THE QUEEN OF PUERTO RICO AND OTHER STORIES’ by Joe Frank’ by MICHAEL DORRIS for the Los Angeles Times
November 24, 1996
Joe buys Bonnie Bedelia's house in Santa Monica by Ruth Ryon for the Los Angeles Times Joe buys 1021 Georgina Avenue for 1.01M
August 29, 1997
Signing off: Joe Frank is Off the Air
By Steve Lowery in LA Weekly
late 1998 - early 1999
‘Joe Frank - Voice of Darkness’ Jeff Rice's article about Joe for SF Weekly
October 1, 1999
‘Joe Frank Plans Return to Airwaves on KCRW’
in the Los Angeles Times
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.
early 2003
Katherine Wessling's interview with Joe for ‘Speak’ magazine, early 2003
March 7, 2004
‘The Bleep That Never Was’
by Sandra Tsing Loh. She explains why she lost her show on KCRW, mentions Joe.
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
January 25, 2010
Radio Survivor's top radio shows - Matthew's #5: Joe Frank, Work-in-Progress
Matthew Lasar's commentary on Joe for ‘Radio Survivor’
February 1, 2011
‘Joe Frank, public radio icon, might chuck the $8 cane’
by James Rainey
A review of Joe's live show
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).
September 16, 2011
Alex Yablon writes about Joe for ‘The Point’ magazine
March 14, 2013
Ira Glass on Joe
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
HITS Daily Double on Joe
‘Hearing Voices’ remembers Joe
January 18, 2018
KCRW remembers radio artist Joe Frank
By Avishay Artsy on KCRW
January 19, 2018
Fans of Joe Frank remember the storyteller’s dark sonic magic
By Jon Kalish in Current
‘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 25, 2018
Joe Frank, Radio Host and Producer, 79
By Avishay Artsy in Jewish Journal
Joe Frank and football uniforms
By Frances Anderton on KCRW
KCRW's Frances Anderton gets Joe's opinions about football uniforms.
January 31, 2018
‘In Memoriam: The Real Joe Frank’
By Esmé Gregson in The Argonaut Newsweekly
January 2018
WNYC remembers Joe
June 15, 2021
‘Joe Frank: Somewhere Out There’ Explores Life of Radio Legend
Pete Schwaba remembers Joe for Wisconsin PBS
September 9, 2018
The Radio Auteur: Joe Frank, Ira Glass, and Narrative Radio
by Andrew Leland for ‘The New York Review of Books’ - ‘Through his broadcasts over the course of forty years, Joe Frank, who died at seventy-nine this past January, brought the notion of the auteur to American radio.’
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