I want you to post here how Facebook ruined your life. You see, my friend Tina (as in "Roger Williams In America" and "The Wind From My Head" in Real Punks Don't Wear Black) started a Facebook group last week called Campus Restaurant Revisited which she's been pressuring me to join. The thing is, I'm not on Facebook, since I don't want yet another ( Read more... )

In an exciting and innovative sales strategy, the University Of Georgia Press is conducting a CREATIVE NONFICTION SALE, to create room in the warehouse, no doubt. Titles include:

--Frank Kogan, Real Punks Don't Wear Black, sale price $6.24
--Paul Morley, Words And Music: A History Of Pop In The Shape Of A City, sale price $6.24 ( Read more... )

Just posted this on an old blogger thread that I found via Google:

Bug said: I've read it over thirty times now and am still no closer to understanding what the penman actually meant by this.

"through the process of our appreciating them[, we] turn them into nothing."

What does this mean?
Seriously. It's not a rhetorical question.Wish you [rmd] ( Read more... )

Frank ( Read more... )

In three months through June 2006 my book moved about 1,450 copies, so I said to myself, "It'll probably top out at about 2,000," which I guess wasn't too bad considering I didn't get many reviews, the most high-profile being Tom Breihan's Pitchfork rave ("Don't even attempt to fuck with Real Punks Don't Wear Black") that didn't even go up until ( Read more... )

Interview with me posted here.

Two more reviews of Real Punks Don't Wear Black (both really great):

Don't even attempt to fuck with Real Punks Don't Wear Black

Willing to be seduced by this silly woman

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