Gina Frangello
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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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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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Sunday Rumpus Recap
In case you snoozed Sunday away, here’s what went down: New, kick-ass Rumpus Sunday editor Gina Frangello brought in two great pieces, Emily Rapp’s “Transformation and Transcendence: The Power of Female Friendship” and Stacy Bierlein’s “Ten Reasons Not to Sleep…
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The Rumpus Sunday Review: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Eugenides aims not just to retell the “marriage plot” novel of a former era, but, of course, to subvert it. And this, of course, he does.
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On Men Undressed
Lidia Yuknavtich (a Rumpus Book Club author) conversed with Gina Frangello (also a Rumpus contributor) about Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience, an anthology premised on women writing sex from the perspective of male characters. Yuknavitch discusses…
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The Rumpus Interview with Cris Mazza
Cris Mazza is an indie lit icon. Her debut novel, How to Leave a Country, was a PEN Nelson Algren Award winner, and since then she has gone on to publish more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction…
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The Rumpus Interview with Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello is capable of magic. She’s the kind of person you meet and you know seconds after meeting them, they’re capable of things you’d never be able to accomplish.
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Aw Shucks
“Interestingly, I’ve found The Rumpus a lot more compelling lately than the New York Times. I oscillate between really worrying about old, venerable print pubs and feeling like I don’t want to be part of attacking them and making them…