About

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Joel Randolph Rabenold Finsel is an American writer, teacher, and the co-founder of Third Person Project, a non-profit creative research group based in Wilmington, North Carolina, dedicated to generating and sponsoring historical documentary projects.

His books include Cocktails & Conversations, about tending bar during the craft-cocktail renaissance, and Franz Kline in Coal Country, a biography of the abstract-expressionist's early years and works. 

 

Finsel's articles and recipes have appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Oxford American, Playboy.com, Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere.

 

He teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. 

joelfinsel@gmail.com