Lit-Link Round-up

This week’s Sunday essay is from Susan Straight.  Here’s Susan talking to Brad Listi at Other People.  Tod Goldberg is interviewing her for the Rumpus soon.

Something about this election is giving everyone PTSD flashbacks of Ayn Rand.  Here’s Steve Almond’s Election Literary Smackdown pitting Rand against Steinbeck.  And here’s your Sunday-spit-take winner: George Saunders’ “I Was Ayn Rand’s Lover.”

Sandy-survivors, Melville House offers First-aid for your water-damaged books.

I find GoodReads kind of indecipherable.  Still, their Choice Awards are some of the only awards out there entirely driven by readers, so voting seems worthwhile.

An excerpt from Cris Mazza’s provocative memoir of inorgasmia, Something Wrong With Her, which she also explored on the Sunday Rumpus recently.

Barbara Shoup was an early mentor of mine in the Other Voices magazine days.  Here’s an excerpt from her timely and beautiful new novel, An American Tune.

And I heard Kat Meads read this week at Women & Children First, in Chicago.  She knocked me on my ass.  I’m not that interested in either historical novels or Russian history (uh, probably I’m not supposed to say that in public?) but Kat’s For You, Madam Lenin, transcends those kinds of specialized categories.  It’s a vibrantly alive, weird, deeply psychological novel.  Don’t take my word for it: Kat talks about her work here.

My comrades at the Rumpus’ “On Hands and Knees” Litcrawl event: Rob Roberge and Emily Rapp, live on YouTube. And here’s Stephen, previewing his Happy Baby screenplay.  Man, it was a nice show.

Bloomberg has endorsed Obama.  Colin Powell did it too.  Will it matter?  What about those Bane Capital-owned voting machines?  Fingers crossed that I won’t be sending out the Round-up from Canada next Sunday…

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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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