His work has been published in hundreds of magazines and anthologies, including The Nation, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Las Vegas Life, Yankee, USA/Today, The Georgia Review, The New York Times, Baseball Diamonds, and Yellow Silk.
More recent work includes a 2011 collection of poetry, West of Midnight,[2] published by the New York Quarterly Press and nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize.
Among its contents was a letter written by Sam C. Phillips, in 1996, praising Douskey's knowledge and appreciation of his life's work, and personal accounts of the lives of Memphis musicians.
Luttrell Jr., Mayor of Shelby County, Tennessee proclaimed "Franz Douskey Day", in honor of his music and writing, "who under his stage name T. L. Meade worked alongside Memphis music greats (Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Isaac Hayes and especially Sam C. Phillips) including far-reaching road shows to take the Memphis sound out into the world.
It was there that he met writers Richard Shelton, Edward Abbey, William Eastlake, Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, as well as publishers Jon and Gypsy Webb.
In Tucson the late 1960s, Douskey ran a "resistance-house" for draft dodging draftees heading for Canada, set up the Free University with Steve Mueller, and helped establish the Food Conspiracy, before moving east to work with the Black Panther Party.
In his works, Douskey originated numerous neologisms, including "factitious": the complex piling on of erroneous facts based on a false premise (as in "We must go to war because there are weapons of mass destruction"); "fictoid": a brief lie hoping to pass as the truth (as in "I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky") the comically ponderous "irregardful", which is grammatically correct; and the astute observation that "Sequels never equal" (pg.
An avid outdoorsman and publicist for the Giant Valley Polo Club, Franz Douskey currently resides in Hamden, CT., and at a second unknown address.