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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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    Sunday Rumpus Fiction: My Parasite

    First, they did things the usual way. Rita and Lila met other conjoined twins at the conventions and dated them rigorously…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    This is a stunner from Chloe Caldwell: “My Year of Heroin and Acne.” I’m liking Salon’s “Body Issues” series.  Here’s “Sexy Dresses That Barely Fit” by Lily Burana. I’m radically perplexed and a little alarmed by this apparent love-fest for…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Michele Filgate’s Ultimate Book Guide, on Salon, navigates 2012’s best by asking writers like Junot Diaz, Carol Anshaw, Jami Attenberg and 47 others to talk about their favorite books this year.  Don’t miss this one. In a similar vein, the…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Lauren Cerand, Penina Roth, Michelle Orange and a host of interesting others make Flavorwire’s “50 Up-and-Coming New York Culture Makers.” Speaking of up-and-coming, the always-provocative Laura Bogart’s “The Curse of My Birthing Hips,” in Salon’s Body Issues series. On The…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    This is going to be a short one–my mom got into a car accident the other day (on my dad’s 91st birthday no less) with my girls in the car, and things have been chaotic here.  Mom’s having surgery for…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Emily Rapp and The Rumpus top HuffPo’s “required reading” list for women.  Apparently our new tagline is: The Rumpus.  Killin’ it for the ladies since 2009. Don’t get too cheerful with all this Rumpus-love and post-election relief.  Republicans basically dissed…

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    Lit-Link Round-Up

    Emily Rapp is back in the house, people.  If you, like a lot of people, can’t get enough of Emily, see her recent “Obnoxious Questions People Ask Me About Writing About My Dying Son.” Just in time for the holidays:…

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    Lit-Link Round-Up

    The habits of famous (mostly dead) writers. I love Richard Cox, LitReactor, and this list of 10 Awesome Writers You’ve Never Heard of Before.  Though I am happy to say I bet you have heard of plenty of ’em, including…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    The Rumpus reviewed and Stephen, Isaac, Julie and Paul profiled on The Bold Italic. Congrats to editor Elizabeth Collins and TNB Books: The Beautiful Anthology is included in the New York Times’ “Best Bathroom Books of 2012.”  Leah Odze Epstein…

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    The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno

    “I’m exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.” Novelist, theorist, historian and blog-girl, Kate Zambreno gives up a meaty, definitive interview.

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    The phenomenal Kathie Bergquist (perhaps the coolest person I can call “my former student”) is launching Ms. Fit, a “web ‘zine dedicated to health, fitness, and wellness from a body-positive, LGBT-friendly feminist perspective.”  Look, if you know me, you know…

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    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…