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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

    Sunday Rumpus alum, Laura Bogart’s, Salon piece, “I Choose to Be Fat” has gone viral, with good reason. And Rumpus gal Antonia Crane in the LA Times, strip-club-consultant extraordinaire. If you read Margo Rabb’s fascinating “Fallen Idols” in the NYTimes,…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    12 Amazing Staircases around the world. LitReactor is rocking it on craft essays. Their most recent newsletter groups together 10 of the best. Steve Almond’s open letter to his daughter, about love. Sandie Friedman’s essay on “the unlived life” at The…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    By the time you’re reading this, I’m in Mexico, prepping for this awesome thing. Depending on my internet connection, this could be my last Round-up until after July 16, when I return to Chicago…but most likely, I’ll be checking in…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Congrats to Sunday Rumpus alum, Tara Ison, on the selection of her novel Rockaway as a “don’t miss” summer read by O, Oprah’s magazine. It’s Father’s Day. Have an open letter. Kinda schmaltzy, but at the end of the day…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Should women writers only have one child, if they want to produce more than offspring? You know, I think this piece means well…I really do. The writers cited within are all ones I admire and have, myself, often looked to…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Matt Bell’s debut novel is out from Soho. See Matt in the new “Story and Song” issue of Shelf Unbound. Also includes a great conversation between Tod Goldberg and Rob Roberge. Hannah Arendt and the New Yorker. Dzanc’s rEprint series…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    So all Pam Houston’s slots were taken in Other Voices Queretaro, but two have suddenly opened up. Want to study with Pam in Mexico this July 5-14? Rob Roberge and Josip Novakovich are teaching too. Check it out! Amazing yoga-lit…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    This is cool: The Handsome Family in the New Yorker. Allison Amend’s A Nearly Perfect Copy is called “delectable” by Alan Cheuse on NPR. Caroline Leavitt does the TNB Self-Interview.

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Today we have an interview with Emily Rapp. Here, too, for Mother’s Day, is Emily’s “This Mother’s Day, I Am No Longer a Mother.” Congrats to one of the most generous writers I know, Caroline Leavitt, whose novel Is This…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    So I’m not sure anyone can dispute the fact that there’s no money in book review sections…if that were a genuine argument to be made, basically every book review section in every major paper but the New York Times wouldn’t…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    This Part Is About Me and My Friends So If You Don’t Give a Shit Scroll Down… So I was in Los Angeles for the Festival of Books. When I left Chicago, it was raining in this manic, endless way…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    As a mother of two adopted kids myself, I found Jennifer Gilmore’s HuffPo piece on whether “mothering” differs from “parenting” interesting. Mainly, this piece seems merely a jumping-off point. Biological motherhood is a fetishized thing in our culture. When I…

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