May 2008
Writing Hats & Eyeglasses was brutal, because I had to confront things in myself that no one knew about. But I finally got through the layers of lies and deceit and wrote the truth. Read more...
February 2008
A Wing and a Prayer
She doesn't always play her cards right. But entertainment journalist Martha Frankel, who grew up watching
middle-aged men in leisure suits playing poker at her parents' table and scored her first kiss at the racetrack,
proves in her intimate, exuberant memoir, Hats & Eyeglasses (Tarcher/Penguin), that even in the face of
a gambling addiction, frank self-appraisal and an armload of hugs can sometimes win the day.
February 2008
Meet her at a bakery on a miserable morning of freezing rain and treacherous roads in the Catskills, not far from Woodstock, and in five minutes you will feel not only as if you have known Martha Frankel all your life, but as if you still have one of her sweaters. Ms. Frankel, who is 57, throws off more warmth than the rental car. Read more...
February 2008
One word describes Martha Frankel's memoir "Hats & Eyeglasses": Fearless. Read more...
Chutzpah & Hearts June 2008 By Annie Nocenti
Martha Frankel knew, when interviewing a very young Leonardo DiCaprio, that the way to get him to open up would be to challenge him to a spitting contest. Frankel won -- and got a great interview -- because she has game.
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Wild Card August 2008 By A.J. Loftin
If you see a woman in the Boiceville supermarket wearing a nightgown and sweatpants, with a cap pulled over her disheveled blonde hair, get her autograph.
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February 2008
Bet On It: Frankel's 'Hats & Eyeglasses' rises to the top.
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April 2008
What's at Stake: By Christina Binkley
Martha Frankel may not be a prototypical member of the faceless players who flood casinos, card rooms and online gambling sites, but her memoir, "Hats & Eyeglasses," is at once funny, disturbing and likely familiar to many who have lived in the grip of obsession. Read more...
February 2008
Frankel, who grew up in the New York boroughs of the Bronx and Queens, eventually discovers a real talent for poker, a passion that descends into addiction. To her credit, the author doesn't blame her family for her failings -- for them she expresses only fierce love. Read more...
February 2008
A fast-paced and amazingly funny memoir by Martha Frankel. Read more...
It may have been genetic destiny that brought Martha Frankel to gambling addiction, but it was love for her family that pulled her out of it. Read the entire Chronogram review...
"Does it strike me as odd that I'm turning down four-and-five-thousand-dollar assignments so I can possibly win eight-five bucks on Wednesday?" Read the entire MSNBC article...
It's an indisputable fact... no matter what our intentions or how detailed our plans, life has a way of getting in the way. Just ask Martha Frankel, celebrity interviewer and author of the newly released (February 14, 2008) memoir Hats & Eyeglasses.
When I told my mother I was going to my first poker game, she gave me one piece of advice. "Never be a whatsittome," she said. Read more...
A former addict's winning tale of how growing up in a family of chronic gamblers led to her own costly habit.
Woodstock TimesFebruary 14, 2008
Odds-on favorite. Martha Frankel's first book skirts the line. Read more...
February 14, 2008
Playlist to listen to with Hats & Eyeglasses. Read more...
March 2. 2008
Frankel's memoir is about compulsion, so it seems fitting that it's compulsively readable. Read more...
Heeb Magazine
An alternative title for the memoir of celebrity journalist and self-proclaimed "poker slut" Martha Frankel, Hats and Eyeglasses,
could easily have been Chicken Soup for the Compulsive Gambleršs Soul.
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Why would any self-respecting author want to climb aboard an ice-shaving-grooming machine invented by Frank Zamboni?
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