Lit-Link Round-up

Samuel L. Jackson wants you to Wake the Fuck Up.

It’s almost time for The Great Write-Off.  And not to late to sponsor someone…

Are you on your way to WeHo?  I wish I were.  Here’s where one of my favorite people, Tod Goldberg, will be.

The author of the David Foster Wallace bio, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, talks with Brad Listi at Other People.

Speaking of Other People: what an absolutely fascinating correspondence between the writers David Quigg and Lauren Groff, on the nature of lost love and found hope.  A small taste of what inspired David to contact Lauren, a total stranger to him, upon the dissolution of his marriage: the interview she gave with Listi at Other People, in which she said: “The skeptical, sophisticated majority of us who would scoff at the obvious futility of birthing utopias don’t seem to notice that we throw the best parts of ourselves into forming utopian communities. We call them ‘marriages.’ We call them ‘families.'”  Wow.  Fascinating stuff.  Read this.

Before the content changes with the new issue, make sure you didn’t miss this Bookslut piece on Philip Roth and the secret book…

Stephen’s film, About Cherry, celebrates its Chicago premier on Friday, October 5, at the stunning Music Box Theater.

I’ve been in Mexico.  We have our first few participants signing up for the Other Voices Querétaro writing program this July 5-14.  I’m so excited that I want to talk your ear off about how great this is going to be, but instead I’ll spare you until I have a website to show you instead, and then I may just not shut up about it.

 

 

 

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Gina Frangello is the author of four books of fiction and a forthcoming memoir, Blow Your House Down. Her novel A Life in Men (Algonquin 2014) is currently under development by Netflix as a series produced by Charlize Theron’s production company, Denver & Delilah. Her most recent novel, Every Kind of Wanting (Counterpoint 2016) was included on several “best of” lists for 2016, including Chicago Magazine’s and The Chicago Review of Books’. She has nearly 20 years of experience as an editor, having founded both the independent press Other Voices Books, and the fiction section of the popular online literary community The Nervous Breakdown. She has also served as the Sunday editor for The Rumpus, and as the faculty editor for both TriQuarterly Online and The Coachella Review. Her short fiction, essays, book reviews, and journalism have been published in such venues as Salon, the LA Times, Ploughshares, the Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, the Chicago Tribune, the Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and in many other magazines and anthologies. After two decades of teaching at many universities, including UIC, Northwestern’s School of Continuing Studies, UCLA Extension, the University of California Riverside Palm Desert, Roosevelt University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago, Gina is excited to be a student again at the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Program for Writers, where she has returned to complete the PhD she left unfinished twenty years ago.

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