[(Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called "Pixies")] [Author: Josh Frank] published on

by Josh Frank

Paperback

Published August 7, 2008

About the author

Josh Frank is a writer, producer, director and composer. He has penned numerous plays, including an authorized adaptation of Werner Hergoz’s Stroszek, screenplays, including an adaptation of Mark Vonnegut's The Eden Express, and musicals, including The Jonathan Richman Musical. He is the author of Fool The World, the Oral History of the Band Called Pixies (St. Martins Press USA/Virgin Books U.K.) and In Heaven Everything Is Fine - - The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers (Simon and Schuster/Free Press.)

Over the last decade, Frank has worked with some of the most interesting and innovative musicians, filmmakers, producers and artists in the industry, including Black Francis of the Pixies, David Lynch and Harold Ramis. He has interviewed over 400 of America’s most notable names in entertainment for his books and screenplays.

His Latest Book an Illustrated Novel based on a song cycle by influential band Pixes, is a collaboration with it’s lead singer Black Francis. It will be released in the U.S. by Harper Collins and in the U.K. by SelfmadeHero in 2014. In his spare time, he created and runs a Mini-Urban Drive-In Movie Theatre in Austin, Tx.