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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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. Read more...

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.

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

Playlist to listen to with Hats & Eyeglasses. Read more...

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...