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Gina Frangello

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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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Steve Almond asks whether it’s immoral to watch the Super Bowl. Best headline ever: ghost ship of cannibal rats about to crash into the Devon coast! The Online Avengers: The New York Times explores the complexities of anti-bullying activism on…

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    Lit-Link Round-Up

    This is my second-to-last round-up before I go on hiatus for my book tour, which is a sprawling, insane thing that’s lasting until the end of April, on and off. That’s nothing, of course, compared to the duration of some…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    A smart, informative and provocative open letter from Dani Shapiro: “Dear Disillusioned Reader Who Contacted Me on Facebook.” Reading Bingo challenge. Thanks, Seth Fisher–love this on “cisgendered persons.”

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Brain function boosted for days after reading a novel. Jezebel says teens “loathe Facebook” because of all the old people and pictures of babies. (My daughters concur.) What if Bilbo Baggins was a girl? One weird old trick to undermine…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Emily Rapp on living a happy life, in the “wrong” order. Laura Bogart on humanity amidst the apocalypse. Michele Filgate on literary self-loathing and gender.

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Julie Greicius’ 14 Places to Talk to a Stranger About Books, on BuzzFeed. Laura van den Berg’s The Isle of Youth reviewed at Bookslut. Have you been following the controversy over at HTMLGiant?

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    Lit-Link Round-Up

    The Airship Advent Calendar: author trivia daily. Guy Intoci of Dzanc Books acquires Patrick O’Neil’s memoir, already out in France–congrats on both ends. Powerful essay,”Air Hunger,” by Angela Giles Patel, over at Sunday Rumpus pal Jennifer Pastiloff’s The Manifest-Station. I…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Here it is: the NYTimes 100 Notable Books. The Times Literary Supplement includes Rick Whitaker’s An Honest Ghost, published by Seattle indie Jaded Ibis, among their Best Ofs. And an eclectic, timeless list from BookRiot. Famous authors on whether the symbolism…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Flavorwire’s 50 Books that define the last 5 years in literature. It’s a hell of a list. If you’re getting online for the first time in a week, National Book Awards winners announced. Edan Lepucki on magazine editors’ 50 Shades…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    I want a girl who reads. “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” by Ariel Levy. Brace yourself. And brace yourself in an entirely different way for what the big publishing looks like on the inside. Enter the Indie Writer Deathmatch. Okay, personally I’d…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Congrats to Rumpus co-owner (and boy meteor) Isaac Fitzgerald, new books editor at BuzzFeed. Can you drink like Dorothy Parker? “In my experience, there are about a dozen submissives for every true dominant…you’d think that most people would rather be…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    The most provocative piece I read this week: Anna March’s “Paternity Leave” over at The Weeklings. Which professions have the most psychopaths? Jessica Keener interviewed about her new collection, Women in Bed, on The Quivering Pen. Have you seen this?…