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Since its creation in 1983, FRANK has been written about in the US, UK, French, German, Canadian press ... among others.
Jan 14, 2002
What the Press Says about Frank
"Frank est la plus ambitieuse."
Le Monde, December 1984
" Frank Étrès certainement la plus vivace publicationÉdes revues américaines éditées à Paris."
Olivier Corpet, Libération, April 15, 1987
"Energy exudesÉthere are fresh minds at work with this publication."
D.E. Steward, Literary Magazine Review, Winter 1987
"A fresh international slant with works by transatlantic authors."
Speak Up, 1988
"The most promising new magazine is FrankÉso far the magazine is making its way. Everyone in Paris knows about it."
James Atlas, "The New Expatriats in Paris," Vanity Fair, March 1988
" Frank is ´an international journal of contemporary writing and art´ that has gradually negotiated most of the pitfalls of exile, and learned to capitalize on its vantage-point. It is biased towards ´social awareness´ and the experimental, rather than towards formal polish and safe reputations, and the interviews in its regular ´Fiction and America´ section have shown a clear preference for writers who profess little interest in theory (Raymond Carver, Stephen Dixon); but it maintains a fairly dispassionate perspective on the current internal rifts between Carver-inspired ´minimalism´ and the more abstract tendencies of ´meta-fiction,´ Its effort to embrace both visual artists and the social-political context gives it a refreshing edge on text-bound academic rivals; and its bright design, with multiple typefaces and witty graphics, has provided a lively setting for some raw, well-spiced ragouts of new writing from New York and Los Angeles."
Gerald Mangan, "The periodicals: Frank," Times Literary Supplement, July 20-26, 1990.
" Frank continues to surprise its readers."
Paris Voice, 1991
"Among the top ten for librariesÉ Highly recommended."
Bill Katz, "Magazines," The Library Journal, 1992
" Frank is not a comforting whif of old fashioned values or a mindless excursion into an exotic, credit card friendly locale. It is a powerful, serious, brilliantly edited magazine which raises issues which go to the very center of our culture and beyond."
"To misquote Bogart, Frank ought to be required reading in all the poetry workshops in all the towns all over the world. It is implicitly a challenge - an intelligent challenge - to our limitations and our ignorances, a breath of fresh air blown into all our literary closets. It makes one want to write, yes, but also - to edit.
Jack Foley, "Frank," Literary Magazine Review, Summer 1993
"Rich in expatriate writers."
Mort Rosenblum, "Who´s Left on the Left Bank," Washington Post Book World, July 1993
"The best literary magazine to come out of Paris since George Plimpton´s Paris Review."
Paris City Magazine, 1993
"Eleven years and many issues later, his circulation is over three thousand with a journal that is carried in bookshops from New York to London to San Francisco to Paris, Brazzaville and Reykjavik, has roughly doubled in size, gone to four colors, and included work by some of the leading writers of our time throughout the world - including an exclusive literary interview with Vaclav Havel, conducted by Applefield at Hradcany Castle in Prague."
"Beholder´s Eye," May 1994
"The longest running independent English language journal now published in Paris."
Anne Driscoll, "In the Footsteps of the Lost Generation," Boston Globe, December 1994
"The twelve year survival of Frank is a tale of creative entrepreneurship."
Philip Crawford, "Heart for Poetry, Head for Business," International Herald Tribune, July 1995
"David Applefield, directeur de Frank Éles autres Etats-Unis, des voix jamais entendus de HawaÏ à New York."
"Bonne humeur au Salon du livre à Paris," Le Monde, March 29, 1996
"Derek Walcott, avant son Nobel, fut régulièrement publie dans Frank."
"Made in Frank," Libération, April 25, 1996
"Je ne vois guère que David Applefield et sa revue Frank, quinze numéros à ce jour, qui teinte de maintenir le flambeau."
Interview with John Calder by A. de G., Libération, April 25, 1996
"I think Frank can do what magazines such as The Paris Review, Field, ParnassusÉhave done: Stand back and yank the work of literature out of the workshop and back into invention."
Jeffrey Beam, "Frankly Speaking," The Independent Weekly, 1998
"Writings from Paris are captured in a recent edition of Frank."
Thomas Haines, "Letter from Paris," The Boston Globe, November 14, 1999
"The brilliance of Frank is that you´re never quite sure what it is!"
George Plimpton of The Paris Review National Arts Club, 1999.
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