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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

    I don’t do Tumblr.  In fact, I’m having acute paranoia that maybe I’ve just spelled or capitalized something wrong IN “Tumblr,” here in the public forum of The Rumpus.  But this week there were a couple of cool, provocative links…

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    Lit-Link Round-Up

    Man Booker longlist announced . . . The deliciously subversive Paula Boemer’s novel, NINE MONTHS, coming soon from Soho.  Soho, I should add, is cranking lately.  They took Alex Shakar’s LUMINARIUM when the big trades had passed, and it ended…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    The inimitably incisive Steve Almond rips Romney’s “truth problem” a new one. And here, the freaky Almond interviews the freakier Jennifer Spiegel, author of The Freak Chronicles, on The Nervous Breakdown. Speaking of which: Are you a Mary Gaitskill freak…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Is it ever the season for galleys. Five in particular, in ARC right now, that are either slaying me or, I hope, soon to slay me . . . The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison (Algonquin).  I’ve been…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    I just got back in the country, and haven’t been surfing the internet much, so today I’m doing something different. Less of a Round-up than a discussion of one thing, or some various things related to one thing.  I guess…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    As this goes live, I should be landing in London.  I used to live there, spending the better parts of 1988-90 in the city as a student, a squatter, a receptionist, a bartender, and a maid respectively.  I considered London…

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    The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Patrick Somerville

    Patrick Somerville on everything from riddles to the elemental power of love to his secular obsession with good and evil.

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Laura Bogart, one-time-intern over at The Nervous Breakdown, has been coming into her own as a writer at breakneck speeds.  Sometimes, the internet makes it easier to watch young writers grow in real-time, and when that happens it’s exciting as…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Everyone probably already knows the Biggest News Around The Rumpus, but in case you’ve been in a remote rain forest with no internet access for the past two days, read about Oprah’s book club revival, with our own Cheryl Strayed’s…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    From time to time, I’m bummed that I don’t live in New York.  Tomorrow night, The Nervous Breakdown and Emergency Press take over NYC, and this ups my bumming considerably.  I really wish I could be there.  You should go.…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Richard Nash recently gave this talk at an event for Grub Street.  If you haven’t heard Richard wax on publishing in general, and his latest venture, Small Demons, in particular, you should check it out.  Small Demons is a pretty…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Finally, my interview with the luminous Cheryl Strayed, aka “Sugar,” is up at Bookslut! Very fine piece too, this same issue of Bookslut, on Susan Sontag. The latest installment of Literary Disco, the incorrigible Tod Goldberg’s latest three-way endeavor, is…