Jennifer Frost Writes

“We write to create the books that we would like to read, that haven’t yet been written—possibly.”—Joyce Carol Oates

  • My Secret Radio by Michael Hallock

    by Jennifer Frost

    Release date, 18 January 2022 My Secret Radio relates the story of a man on a lifelong journey to find meaning. It touches many genres with themes including 1960s establishment racism, casual drug crime, and long-buried family secrets. A shifting Southern political backdrop frames the adolescence of the protagonist, Bill Schaffer, whose adult life as…

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  • Reading Room Recommends

    by Jennifer Frost

    We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done… Ellen Goodman The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes Though these stories were first published nearly 100 years ago, they remain an eye-opening read. Barnes was among the literary glitterati of her day, influencing many…

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  • DeadStar: Who the Hell Was Garth Tyson by Nick Griffiths

    by Jennifer Frost

    DeadStar is fun. Lots of fun. In the opening scenes, we see the author forge an unlikely friendship with an early morning burglar. The offender (Roy Richardson), before he fell into a life of casual housebreaking, played bass in Speed of Life, a pop/punk/New Wave band.

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  • The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant

    by Jennifer Frost

    Immediately I finished this book, I began to look into the true history of Dogtown and was fascinated to find that the characters and events portrayed by Diamant are based in fact.

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  • A Guest on Christmas Eve

    by Jennifer Frost

    Stories are told at Christmas, as they have been for centuries, when families gather and friends join us to celebrate the season. Each year, new tales emerge in a tradition begun by our ancestors and carried on by everyone who sits down in December to read a Christmas story.

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