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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

    Grub Street’s Christopher Castellani’s All This Talk of Love receives a glowing one from the NYTimes. How friendship forms writers: Emily Rapp’s “How I Became the Woman I Am Today.” Josh Mohr is one of our best, and this HTML…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    The Weeklings is on fire: Zoe Zolbrod, with one of the most nuanced and psychologically complex analysises I’ve seen of those horrifying VIDA stats about women and publishing. Katie Arnoldi and Greg Olear with a five-part series on pot, human…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Best weird girl lit for outsider teens, from the Guardian. Which probably means this is a mandatory reading list for Normal Girls too, and for any teen with a penis, since understanding Weird Girls is kind of a prerequisite to…everything.…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Brooklyn Based offers Three Reading Lists from People Who Still Love Books. The Millions’ interview with literary powerhouse Elissa Schappell. It may not pay your mortgage, but in this day of shrinking paying markets, Barrelhouse‘s announcement that it will begin…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Who gets $20K a pop? HuffPo clues us in to authors’ outrageous speaking fees. The links between vegetarianism and oral sex? Body image and sex drive? OKCupid has that graphed. Chloe Caldwell on learning to sit still and deal with…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    I woke Friday morning to the news that Emily Rapp’s son, Ronan Louis, had died. Ronan had Tay-Sachs, but the “expected” nature of a death does nothing to soften a blow when someone is not yet even three-years-old. Emily’s dear…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    In celebration of Valentine’s Day, I give you the most insanely romantic thing I’ve ever read. I want this adorable old Russian couple on my mantle. If I had a mantle, that is. A love affair between a lonely woman…

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    Lit-Link Line-up

    Jennifer Egan says that Goon Squad could have been better and talks about the danger of applause, in an excerpt from Why We Write, and anthology featuring some of the most acclaimed writers of our time, including Rumpus regular Rick…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Oh my god: Josip Novakovich is a finalist for The Booker Prize. Josip is a Sunday Rumpus alum, and an Other Voices Books and Dzanc Books author. He’s also on the faculty of Other Voices Queretaro, the ridiculously kick-ass writing…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    The National Book Critics Circle Award finalists. And 2013’s Creative Capital grant winners. Greg Olear of The Weeklings interviews the great Francine Prose. Wow, between this and my Atwood interview, Greg and I have had a pretty cool week. Also…

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    The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Margaret Atwood

    Grand dame of literature and author of more than 50 books, Margaret Atwood talks to The Rumpus about gender, privacy, the law of improved weaponry, and the brave new world of online publishing.

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    The world seems to be zooming towards a beautiful George Saunders tipping point.  Hard to swing a cat without hitting how freaking awesome he is.  Nice to see this in the NYTimes.  And this from Michael Schaub.  And listen to this too.…