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Hats & Eyeglasses forward Nov. 6, 2009

Chai Rollers Take Four Seats at the Table in Finals of World Series of Poker
"You look around that room at the World Series of Poker," she said. "If somebody started speaking in Yiddish, half of us would have looked up." Read more...


abqarts.com March 2009

Author tours usually consist of bookstore signings, but a new trend of "virtual" author appearances at book clubs using a speakerphone makes for a more personal encounter. This type of "appearance" appeals to authors like Martha Frankel, whose memoir "Hats and Eyeglasses" is about overcoming the betting habit that led her into debt. Read more...


PaperMag.com February 2009

I have a writer crush on Martha Frankel. She's smart and funny and refreshingly, for a memoir writer, non-self serious. She likes to write, had a story to tell, wrote this (very excellent) book and now she wants you to read it. Do it. Read more...


House October 2008

On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving of last year, the publicist from Tarcher/Penguin called to tell me amazing, wonderful news: the New York Times was going to write an at-home story about me for the Home and Garden section. A photographer would be dispatched to photograph me lounging around, looking as if I hadn't a care in the world. Read more...


Oprah Magazine logo 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.


NY Times logo 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...


NY Post logo February 2008

One word describes Martha Frankel's memoir "Hats & Eyeglasses": Fearless. Read more...


Stop Smiling Online logo 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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HVM logo 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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USA Today logo February 2008

Bet On It: Frankel's 'Hats & Eyeglasses' rises to the top. Read more...


Washington Post logo 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...
Bloomberg logo 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...


New Orleans Picayune logo February 2008

A fast-paced and amazingly funny memoir by Martha Frankel. Read more...


Chronogram logo

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...


MSNBC logo

"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...


n logo 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. Read more...



MSNBC logo

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...


Glamour logo

A former addict's winning tale of how growing up in a family of chronic gamblers led to her own costly habit.


Ulster Publishing logo Woodstock Times
February 14, 2008

Odds-on favorite. Martha Frankel's first book skirts the line. Read more...


Large Hearted Boy logo 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 Gambler's Soul. Read more...


Why would any self-respecting author want to climb aboard an ice-shaving-grooming machine invented by Frank Zamboni? Read more...