Episode 48: Jay and Eli Neugeboren’s Whatever Happened to Frankie King

from Lit NYC · host Harry Siegel

Writer Jay Neugeboren and his son, illustrator Eli Neugeboren, talk with Harry Siegel about a Brookltyn Basketball legend who withdrew from public life while remaining in and of the city — writing pornography for the mob to pay the rent, ambitious novels in his own voice and then a million-book-selling “cozy cat” series under the pen name Alice Nestleton.

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