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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

    Unveiling the new dates/site/faculty for Other Voices Querétaro, the writing program I run out of Mexico. Come join us June 27-July 6, with a hotbed of Rumpus alum faculty: Cecil Castellucci, Rob Roberge, Emily Rapp, Stacy Bierlein, and of course…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Neil Gaiman on why our future depends on libraries, reading and writing, in The Guardian. The history of the dystopian novel. Submit to the Danahy Fiction Prize at the University of Tampa. David Michael Lukas on “when the news and…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Narcissists believe themselves more creative than others, and consequently engage in more creative pursuits. A finding in equal parts hilarious and depressing? Faulkner’s “splendid failure.”

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Readers of literary fiction learn empathy and better understand social cues, a study reveals in the NYTimes. Tom Clancy, dead at 66. Buzz Feed seeking a Books Editor.  “No haters.” Josh Mohr is the ugliest tranny at the Uptown. Jonathan…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Abby Geni of The Rumpus Book Club will be chatting with club members tomorrow…today we have the phenomenal Karen Bender talking with Abby to wet your whistle. (Um, I think I have been waiting my whole life for a chance…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Have you heard about the American Writers Museum? The Little Village That Could: New Mexico’s Madrid (home of Rumpus alum Emily Rapp) rallies after a serious flood. Patrick O’Neil leaves his sex buddy hanging…uh…literally, over at The Weeklings. The Rise…

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    Lit-link Round-up

    Feminism is dead! Long live feminism! What do Lauren Cerand, Emma Straub, and Tayari Jones have in common with Gay Talese and Joan Didion? Bow-down style, that’s what. Mellisa Chadburn’s round-up of the best 8 literary spots on the internet.…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    The launch of Not Your Eyes, an online and print fiction and nonfiction publishing house. To hair or not to hair? In this age of proudly organic and hemp products, Millicent Borges Accardi wonders why women still pursue shaving and waxing…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Have you heard about The Weekly Rumpus yet? Shelf Unbound‘s competition for the best indie published book. 17 personal essays that will change your life. 96 year old man wins a song contest by writing about his dead wife. Brian…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    LitReactor names Other People as one of its 5 favorite podcasts. James Salter interviewed. Sean Beaudoin on Elmore Leonard. The Cost of Living by Rob Roberge called “one of the most gripping novels about the rock and roll lifestyle I have…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    PEN 2013 Literary Winners announced. Did I link this kick-ass piece last week?  I’ve been sending it to every memoirist I know and people are really responding to it. FC2’s Sukenick and Doctorow prizes open their doors to submissions.

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Both The Rumpus and The Nervous Breakdown make Flavorwire’s 25 Best Sites for Literature Lovers.  I’m kind of beside myself with glee. Apply for a Word Riot travel grant! Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels “everyone should read.”