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Joey Franklin

Writer. editor. teacher.

Writer. editor. teacher.Writer. editor. teacher.

Books, Etc.

The Writer's Hustle

My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married

Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays

The Writer's Hustle is a comprehensive guide to all the things successful writers do when they're not sitting at the keyboard. Drawing on wisdom from dozens of experienced authors, professors, students, and other writing professionals, this book offers pragmatic and systematic advice on the everyday professional practices that make up a writer's life.


Informative and personal, The Writer's Hustle is an ideal companion for university students, recent graduates, and independent enthusiasts-anyone looking to cultivate the creativity, discipline, humility, and grit that every writer needs to flourish.






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Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays

My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married

Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays

In Delusions of Grandeur Joey Franklin examines the dreams and delusions of America’s most persistent mythologies—including the beliefs in white supremacy and rugged individualism and the problems of toxic masculinity and religious extremism—as they reveal themselves in the life of a husband and father fast approaching forty. With prose steeped in research and a playful, lyric attention to language, Franklin asks candid questions about what it takes to see clearly as a citizen, a parent, a child, a neighbor, and a human being.


Part cultural critique, part parental confessional, Delusions of Grandeur embraces the notion that the personal is always political, and reveals important, if sometimes uncomfortable, truths about our American obsessions with race, class, religion, and family.

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My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married

My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married

My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married

Modern manhood is confusing and complicated, but Joey Franklin, a thirtysomething father of three, is determined to make the best of it. In My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married, he offers frank, self-deprecating meditations on everything from male-pattern baldness and the balm of blues harmonica to grand theft auto and the staying power of first kisses. He riffs on cockroaches, hockey, romance novels, Boy Scout hikes, and the challenge of parenting a child through high-stakes Texas T-ball. With honesty and wit, Franklin explores what it takes to raise three boys, succeed in a relationship, and survive as a modern man. My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married is an uplifting rumination on learning from the past and living for the present, a hopeful take on being a man without being a menace to society.



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Essays

"An Apology I've Been Working on For a While."

Collected in Revising Eternity 2021

"Girl Fight"

reprinted in The Best of Brevity, November 2020

"Not in My Backyard"

Forth Genre, ​Spring 2018

"An Elegy, Before Sorrow"

Tusculum Review, Volume 13, 2017.

"The Full Montaigne"

Ninth Letter, 2015

"Cool Enough, For the Moment"

Sweet: Summer 2015

"Stuck"

Hunger Mountain, Summer 2015

"Girl Fight"

Love & Profanity (Capstone, 2015)

Brevity, January 2014

"A Personal Etymology of Desire"

Southloop Review: January 2015

"Houseguest"

Mid-American Review, 2014

"Climbing Shingle Mill Peak"

Sport Literate, Fall 2013

"The Lifespan of a Kiss"

Gettysburg Review, Summer 2013

"On Haptics, Hyperrealism, and my Father's Year in Prison"

The Pinch, Spring 2013

"How to Be a T-Ball Parent"

Sport Literate, March 2012

"Working at Wendy's"

Reprinted in the 13th and 14th edition of the Norton Reader, and The Norton Little Reader, and online at the Utne Reader.

"In Their Ears and On Their Tongues"

American Literary Review, Spring 2013

"Grand Theft Auto"

The Normal School, Fall 2011

"Language Lust"

Florida Review, 2010

"Call Me Joey"

Waccamaw Journal, Fall 2010

"An Excuse I've Been Working on For a While"

Dialogue 2010

"Working at Wendy's"

Twenty Something Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House, 2006)

Articles

"Writing Contests: A Look Inside the system of Competition."

Poets & Writers, May/June, 2019

"Submit That Manuscript!"

Poets & Writers, July/Aug 2017

​"Facts into Truths: Henry David Thoreau and the Role of Hard Facts in ​CNF"

Assay, Spring 2017

"The Critic as Artist: Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic and the Personal Essay"

Writer's Chronicle, March/April 2016

"The Fine Art of Choosing a Degree"

Poets & Writers, Oct/Nov 2015

"The Beauitful, Untrue Things of the Lyric Essay"

Triquarterly, 2014

"How to Be a Good Literary Citizen"

Poets & Writers, 2013

"Essaying 'the Thing': An Imagiste Approach to the Lyric Essay"

Writer's Chronicle, Fall 2012

"Survival of the Fittest"

Poets & Writers, Sept/Oct 2011


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