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The Mighty Franks by Michael Frank

“My feeling for Mike is something out of the ordinary,” eight-year-old Michael Frank hears his childless Auntie Hankie tell his mother. “I cannot explain it…I love him beyond life itself.” With this indelible bit of eavesdropping, we are drawn into the spellbinding world of The Mighty Franks, a memoir about the author’s experience of growing up in 1970s Los Angeles as part of an uncommonly close and unusual Hollywood family.

Frank’s portrayal of his fascinating, singularly polarizing screenwriter aunt, the boy in her thrall, and the man he becomes was named one of the best books of 2017 by The Telegraph and The New Statesman.  Called “brilliant” by Jonathan Franzen, “probing and radiantly polished” by The New York Times, and described by The Atlantic as being written with “Proustian acuity and razor-sharp prose,” this prize-wining memoir will be the subject of a lively conversation about the challenges of capturing—and transforming—the turbulence of family life.

Sarah Boxer is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and was for many years on the staff of The New York Times as a reporter, editor, and critic. She is the creator of the Freud-based graphic novel In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary and the anthology Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web.











When: Wed., Apr. 11, 2018 at 8:00 pm
Where: The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park S.
212-475-3424
Price: Free
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“My feeling for Mike is something out of the ordinary,” eight-year-old Michael Frank hears his childless Auntie Hankie tell his mother. “I cannot explain it…I love him beyond life itself.” With this indelible bit of eavesdropping, we are drawn into the spellbinding world of The Mighty Franks, a memoir about the author’s experience of growing up in 1970s Los Angeles as part of an uncommonly close and unusual Hollywood family.

Frank’s portrayal of his fascinating, singularly polarizing screenwriter aunt, the boy in her thrall, and the man he becomes was named one of the best books of 2017 by The Telegraph and The New Statesman.  Called “brilliant” by Jonathan Franzen, “probing and radiantly polished” by The New York Times, and described by The Atlantic as being written with “Proustian acuity and razor-sharp prose,” this prize-wining memoir will be the subject of a lively conversation about the challenges of capturing—and transforming—the turbulence of family life.

Sarah Boxer is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and was for many years on the staff of The New York Times as a reporter, editor, and critic. She is the creator of the Freud-based graphic novel In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary and the anthology Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web.

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