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Gina Frangello

GINA FRANGELLO is the fiction editor of The Nervous Breakdown. She is the author of the collection Slut Lullabies and the novel My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus 2006). She was the longtime Editor of the literary magazine Other Voices, and co-founded its book imprint, Other Voices Books, where she is now the Executive Editor of the Chicago office. Her short stories have been published in many lit mags and anthologies, including A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection, Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, Swink and Clackamas Literary Review. She guest edited the anthology Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass) and teaches creative writing at Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies. Gina lives in Chicago and can be found online at Facebook, www.ginafrangello.com and the Other Voices Books' website, www.ovbooks.org. She has twin daughters, a wild preschooler son, and never sleeps.



 Recent Work by Gina Frangello
ARTS & CULTURE »
The Worst Boyfriend I Never Had: An Ex-Client’s Apology for The Talented Mr. Clegg
The mysterious nature of really liking someone who kinda shat all over you.
FICTION »
New to the Party: The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
Gina Frangello considers escape and reinvention in Emily St. John Mandel's The Singer's Gun.
FICTION »
New to the Party: Spotlight on Secret Son, by Laila Lalami
Gina Frangello launches her new book review column with a close look at the exciting new novel Secret Son, by Laila Lalami.
MEMOIR »
III. A Beautiful Violence: Notes on Mobsters, Murder, Rapes and Nostalgia
Gina Frangello's life wasn't like watching The Sopranos on TV. It was like living across the street from them.
MEMOIR »
II. Fake Rats
Gina Frangello's seriously old, half-deaf father wants to know why the hell the neighbors have fake rats in their backyard.
MEMOIR »
I. Life’s a Kick in the Ass, Honey (Reflections on my Father, the Week of his 88th Birthday)
Gina Frangello on her father's 88 strange, colorful and contradictory years on earth.
LETTERS »
Welcome Home to the Fiction Section
Welcome to the TNB Fiction Section!
MEMOIR »
Pain Is a Country
My vacation from hell on the Island of Pain.
ESSAY »
A Thousand Words: A Decent Proposal
The (sometimes outrageous) questions that come with being a cross-cultural family.
HEALTH & LIFESTYLE »
Vibrator Shopping: A Tragi-Comedy in Two Thousand Words
How to take an anorgasmic marital therapist shopping for sex-aids.
HUMOR »
Alice, Go to Rehab: An Open Letter About How to be Forgiven in America
Have you made an Ass of yourself lately? Check into rehab and all will be forgiven.
HEALTH & LIFESTYLE »
Have We Talked About Size Yet?
Gina Frangello's husband is dubbed the Tommy Lee of TNB.
NONFICTION »
(Not) Writing the Dead: Notes on a Novel
Sarah traveled the world despite her CF, and died in Jordan among the Bedouins.
HUMOR »
I Hate The Kite Runner (and Other Reasons I Suspect I May Be an Asshole)
Gina Frangello charges herself with Assholedom and the jury is out.
ESSAY »
The Real Beauty Myth: A Cautionary Tale
Why do Beautiful People have such sucky marriages?
NONFICTION »
My Publisher Went to Hell and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Solicited book deals, marketing grants . . . it all seemed too good to be true. Because it was.
HEALTH & LIFESTYLE »
The Community Baby (or “The Big Chill: 2008″)
Two dads, one egg donor, one surrogate and a bunch of Blue State friends. What could go wrong?
ESSAY »
The Two-Bed Epidemic
It's 11 p.m., do you know where your spouse sleeps?
 
   
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