Talk about hitting home! I am deeply humbled and honored by Caitlin Heaney West’s profile of me in my hometown newspaper, The Sunday Times—along with (surprise) interviewees Professor J. Timothy Cannon, Ph.D., Alec Friedman of Dossier Journal, and my mom Janie Alperin’s enormously kind quotes featured therein.

Read this morning’s Sunday People profile in The Times-Tribune here: The Sunday Times: Model Student appears in magazine ads, writes about fashion and style

[View The Sunday Times January 8, 2012 print edition here: front page and continued in People on page F1]

It was such a pleasure to be interviewed in my hometown (well, on the phone) by the brilliant and delightful Stephanie DeBalko for The Weekender, Northeastern Pennsylvania’s arts and entertainment weekly newspaper.  

I cannot even begin to relate how heartening it is to bear witness to Scranton’s cultural renaissance.  Moreover, I am tremendously grateful for the opportunity to juggle my work in New York with volunteering (including with the Organizing for America Pennsylvania campaign, APSSC, CSA Executive Committee, USPB N&V, and College Democrats), county civic initiatives, and academic studies out of the city.  Thanks, world!

More on my hometown here: Backyard Bill | Julia Frakes 

Be sure to check out this stellar profile and interview with one of my dearest friends, Alec Friedman. I had never fathomed that being likened to orange juice concentrate could be so flattering! Truly taken aback…

Be sure to hop to Dossier, where I interviewed Chadwick Tyler about his forthcoming art book, projected for publication in fall 2012.

Be sure to check out my love and textual fort-building partner-in-crime, Alec Friedman, looking generally handsome and charming beyond words on Backyard Bill.  Here’s to Team FR/Quail/March 31!