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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

    Greg Olear is smart and relentless in this exploratory expose on the aftermath of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished.” What do you think of the positioning of “Toni Morrison” for posterity? Patrick Somerville makes the coolest book trailer ever. Roy Kesey, Anne Leigh Parrish,…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    A week ago, I was at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.  Here in Chicago, everyone keeps asking me if I saw any “movie people.”  But I wouldn’t know movie people if I saw them, so my experience of…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    My six-year-old son is obsessed with the Titanic.  I thought he was just quirky, but the New Yorker posits this as an archetype of human obsession. I interview Charles Blackstone, Managing Editor of Bookslut and one of the nicest guys…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    So last week I talked about the very cool Chiasmus Media looking for a new co-honcho.  This week, The Sun is looking for a Managing Editor.  And this gig, no joke, actually pays! Continuing the coverage of Men Undressed contributors…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    The always-provocative Lidia Yuknavitch kicks off a series from the contributors to Other Voices Books’ Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience over at Meredith Resnick’s The Writer’s [Inner] Journey, with a probing look at how internal narratives…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    This week concluded the excellent Story Week Festival, held by Columbia College Chicago’s Fiction Writing Department, where I’ve taught for something like 13 years.  If you ever come to Chicago at all, you should plan to come next March and check…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    This Sunday, Josip Novakovich gives us an essay on friendship addiction and male friendships.  One fun and thought-provoking aspect of this piece is its radical difference in tone from the essay Emily Rapp wrote, some months ago, on female friendship…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    One week ago this morning, I’d been awake for just over thirty hours, and was seeing stars while getting ready for Cheryl Strayed’s release party for Wild, thrown at the home of Rachel DeWoskin, a glam literary friend whose furniture does…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    I interview Rhonda Hughes of Hawthorne Books over at The Nervous Breakdown.  Rhonda is apparently hard to pin down for interviews, so folks tell me I was lucky to snag this—they’re right: I was. The ridiculously cool Wanda Coleman, whose…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    Sometimes, there’s so much cool stuff happening close to home, that a girl has to give in to Rumpus self-referentiality: 1) This has been Cheryl Strayed week, pretty much.  If you’ve been down with dysentary since before Valentine’s Day, you…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    It’s a pretty fine time for galleys. I get a lot of galleys in the mail because of my role as the Fiction Editor over at The Nervous Breakdown.  Sometimes, a strange number of these seem to have phrases like…

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    Lit-Link Round-up

    If you’re not listening to literary podcasts, you’re missing out.  Some recent highlights: The Bat Segundo Show: now with Deborah Scroggins and upcoming with Stewart O’Nan. Other People with Brad Listi: always good but running on an especially killer streak…

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