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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

    You’ve heard me talk about Other Voices Querétaro.  Our website is now live!  Workshops with Pam Houston, Josip Novakovich and Rob Roberge.  My longtime partner in the Other Voices operations, Stacy Bierlein and I will run Wine and Publishing Talks nightly.…

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    This week I’ve been reading a lot about illness.  I read this stunning essay by Barry Silesky, poet and longtime editor of ACM, in the Missouri Review, in tandem with Bob Flanagan’s The Pain Journal.  Neither piece is new, of course.  Flanagan has been dead…

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    Jump on board for the Great Write Off. Speaking of Dzanc Books, co-founder, award-winning author and philanthropist extraordinaire, Steven Gillis, gives it up on Other People. Ladyparts Justice…”they hate creepy anti-women laws.” If you’re in the Bay area for Litquake,…

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    Samuel L. Jackson wants you to Wake the Fuck Up. It’s almost time for The Great Write-Off.  And not to late to sponsor someone… Are you on your way to WeHo?  I wish I were.  Here’s where one of my…

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    The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Junot Díaz

    Junot Díaz is the most interesting kind of… hmm… I was going to use the word “genius,” but maybe that’s not quite right for a man who spends seventeen years honing one brilliant book.

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    Honestly, stop everything and watch Sarah Silverman walk you through the current regulations on “voter fraud.”  In short, make sure Grandma’s registered to own a firearm and we’re all good… Did everyone else see this disclaimer Philp Roth wrote for…

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    The highlight of your literary week?  This “Six Question Sex Interview” with Junot Diaz, conducted by Six Question Sex Interview pioneer, Jessica Anya Blau.  (P.S. Rumor has it I’m next in the queue for this series.  Seriously, Jessica?  You’re putting…

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    The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Evison

    Thrice-acclaimed novelist, Jonathan Evison, talks community-building, literary intimacy, the importance of editors, and the fragile construction of hope.

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    A fascinating documentary film, Sole Survivor, exploring the fates of sole survivors of commercial airline crashes has been successfully funded on Kickstarter.  Congrats! Philip Roth to cooperate on a biography of his life written by Richard Yates’ biographer. Speaking of biographies:…

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    Excellent, albeit depressing as hell, HuffPo piece about the corruption in politics.  Uh…happy reading? Ilie Ruby, author of The Salt God’s Daughter, will be interviewed soon on The Sunday Rumpus.  She Writes is spotlighting her on the Countdown to Publication,…

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    Live in Chicago?  The multi-city, roving reading series, Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience, is back, hosted by Sunday Salon Chicago, tonight.  Black Rock Pub, 3614 N. Damen, 8pm.  Performers include Megan Stielstra, Jac Jemc, Eugene Cross and Lauryn Allison.  I’m emceeing…

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    Navigating the world of literary agents, at The Millions.  Some good stuff here, except that the longshot theory of “it’s all who you know” isn’t really true.  I got my first two literary agents before I knew freaking anyone, and…

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