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Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer, Pot Farm, and Barolo; the poetry books, The Morrow Plots, Warranty in Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop, and 2 chapbooks. “Preparing the Ghost” was a New York Times Editors' Choice, an NPR Notable Book, and a New Yorker Book to Watch Out For. “The Mad Feast” was selected as a Staff Pick by The Paris Review, a Best Book of 2015 by Ploughshares, The Millions, and Paste Magazine, and featured in The Wall Street Journal, Saveur, and Entertainment Weekly. His work appears widely in journals and magazines, including The ...more

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	Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa 3.14 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 2021 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer 3.77 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines 3.25 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America’s Food 2.88 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Four Hours to Mpumalanga it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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"I had hit a wall in the writing process and had to light out for Newfoundland in order to conduct on-site research, and walk the same morning walk that Harvey ritualistically walked (the one that led him on that fateful morning, to the giant squid), and get drunk with Harvey’s descendants, and immerse myself in what the filmmaker Werner Herzog sometimes controversially refers to as 'the voodoo of Read more of this blog post »

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One with the Tiger: On Savagery and Intimacy

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Matthew Gavin Frank said: " Muscular, vulnerable, twitchy, and relentlessly curious, Steven Church’s awesome One With the Tiger stalks some of our most absurd, sometimes-violent, and uncontainable compulsions for communion and self-destruction, and finds, lurking within them, s ...more "

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message 2: by Matthew

Jul 25, 2009 03:25PM

Author & Book Promotions wrote: "Greetings Matthew, and thank you for the add! I was trying to read samples of your poems but couldn't fine any. I would invite you to please read samples of Unscrambled Eggs -- a poetry collection."

Author & Book Promotions wrote: "Greetings Matthew, and thank you for the add! I was trying to read samples of your poems but couldn't fine any. I would invite you to please read samples of Unscrambled Eggs -- a poetry collection."

Will do! I have poetry samples on my webpage: www.matthewgfrank.com Also: Google "Matthew Gavin Frank" with quotes around it and stuff'll come up (Verse Daily stuff and others...) Where exactly can I find Unscrambled Eggs?

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message 1: by Author & Book Promotions

Jul 25, 2009 12:57PM

Greetings Matthew, and thank you for the add! I was trying to read samples of your poems but couldn't fine any. I would invite you to please read samples of Unscrambled Eggs -- a poetry collection.

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