SheWrites Volunteers
This group is set up to keep everyone informed of opportunities to be more involved in the SheWrites community. Join us!
Gina Frangello's Groups
-
Bloggers: Let's Make It …
2251 members
-
Fiction Writers
1033 members
-
Chicago Area Writers
132 members
Gina Frangello's Page
Latest Activity
Gina Frangello replied to the discussion 'She Writes Anniversary Celebration' in the group SheWrites Volunteers
Hi all--
Chicago She Writes members will meet at Black Rock Pub, 7 or 7:30 pm, at 3614 N. Damen in Chicago (just north of the Damen/Addison intersection)--come on by and say hello!
Gina Frangello replied to the discussion 'She Writes Anniversary Celebration' in the group SheWrites Volunteers
Chicago, Illinois--there's a small group of 5-7 of us meeting up, but I know there are more She Writers in Chicago, so go to the group "Chicago Area Members" if you want to connect with us and we're talking specifics there.
Gina Frangello commented on the blog post 'Writing Is Not A Contest! (No Matter How Much Some Dudes Wish It Were)'
I'm not one of those people who believes that all writers should be snivelingly insecure about their own work, and I have no objection to a talented and award-winning writer acknowledging that his is a "good" writer. But this…
Gina Frangello commented on the blog post 'Notes from an American Mother in China'
This is so interesting. I don't think American parents lack a (sometimes inflated) zeal of competition where their kids are concerned, however. I just think it's often that our sources of pride or cultural obsession are…
Gina Frangello replied to the discussion 'Six Word Memoir Contest: "Why I Write"'
Needed to get out of there.
Gina Frangello commented on the blog post 'Five Questions for...Gina Frangello'
Robin, I hear what you're saying, but I'm not really sure why you thought I was attacking Harlequin as vigorously as you seem to think I was. I claimed that they give their writers a formula, and this is true. I didn't go on a…
Gina Frangello commented on the blog post 'Harvard, Final Club, and Sexism in the movie "The Social Network"'
Excited to go read your post on this--I haven't seen the film, but did you read Elissa Bassist's impassioned gender-criticism of it on The Rumpus? A lot of interesting people seem to be talking about what this film--and the real life…
Gina Frangello commented on the blog post 'Reflections on SheWrites' Extraordinary Heroines event'
Zoe, I, too, would have absolutely fallen in love with a book like CURRENCY in my own youth, and wish I could have had such a book, in no small part because of Robin's independence, and the unconventional role--for those of us coming of age in…
Gina Frangello commented on the blog post 'Half a Dozen Unsolicited Pieces of Advice about Running a Small Press'
Love this, Kathleeen. You've definitely hit on some of the very top points for indie editors to keep their sanity/inspiration, and to help their presses create a brand and sustain themselves in this difficult climate.
Gina Frangello commented on the blog post 'Where Learning To Read (and Write) Can Get You Killed -- If You're A Girl.'
Thank you for sharing this, Kamy. Especially for pointing out that when the media uses words like "oppose" to make wrath-filled murderers sound as though they have some kind of reasonable position, that, too, is a kind of crime. I'm…
Wow, The Cherry Bomb series in Grand Rapids, MI is surprisingly fabulous! Include it on your book tours, writers!
Status posted by Gina Frangello
I've got a piece on The Bird Sisters about the recent Picoult/Franzen Twitodrama and gender bias in review practices: http://ning.it/95yhOR
Status posted by Gina Frangello
Rebecca Rasmussen left a comment for Gina Frangello
Hey babe -- my email address is thebirdsisters@gmail.com :)
Gina Frangello commented on the blog post 'What Do You Do All Day?'
Great piece, Erin! And cool about your Chicago author's book sale--always good to hear that Chicagoans are out there representing!
Profile Information
- Who I am:
- @Ginafrangello
www.ovbooks.com
www.ginafrangello.com
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Slut Lullabies (Emergency Press);
My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus);
Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass);
A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection (OV Books);
Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader (Soft Skull)
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- The Nervous Breakdown (www.thenervousbreakdown.com)
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Journalism
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- Yes, for The Nervous Breakdown
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- yes
- My professional associations:
- I am the founder and Executive Editor at Other Voices Books-Chicago, the Fiction Editor at The Nervous Breakdown (www.thenervousbreakdown.com), and I teach at Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies
Gina Frangello's Videos
Gina Frangello's Blog
Straddling the Political and the Subjective (or "Why the PW Top 10 List Has the Right to Offend, but Is Still Offensive")
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 10:50pm 5 Comments 0 Likes
Last week, I attended Margaret Atwood's last United States event for Year of the Flood. The dramatic reading (equipped with a choir singing hymns Atwood wrote for the book) took place at Chicago's Merle Reskin theater, and was so packed that I waited in line for an hour and a half to get Atwood--one of my favorite writers since college--to sign a book. Atwood, as most avid readers know, is not only the recipient of a Booker Prize and numerous other prestigious awards, but is more than a dabbler… Continue
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 3:24pm on September 1, 2010,
Rebecca Rasmussen said… - Hey babe -- my email address is thebirdsisters@gmail.com :)
- At 10:44am on June 29, 2010,
S. J. Powers said… - Gina, I just finished reading your book of stories, Slut Lullabies. I totally loved it!! It's an awesome book I highly recommend to all!
- At 7:33pm on March 8, 2010,
Kamy Wicoff said… - Gina, wow, "A Stranger Among Us" looks amazing and was an absolutely perfect recommendation for today's community action. Thank you so much for sharing it -- I am going to leave a note on Stacy's page right now. :)
Warm best,
Kamy
- At 10:48am on November 13, 2009,
Kamy Wicoff said…
- Gina, your comment on Ermelino's email to She Writes was one of the most thought-provoking, nuanced and fair I've read on this whole thing so far. I am really glad you called attention to the personal piece of this, in defense of an reviewer's right to stand by her books (or, ha, her men in this case), and I wonder if you'd consider doing a blog post on the subject today so that we can call attention to it when we compile the list of Day of Action posts tomorrow. Thanks for being here. And thanks for buying a book today.
Latest Activity
Kelly Hashway replied to the discussion 'OUR BLOGS' in the group Blogging about Books and Writing!
Hashway, Kelly Kelly Hashway's Blog
Meg Waite Clayton commented on the group 'Blogging about Books and Writing!'
I'm (finally) putting together a list of all our blogs. If you want to be included, please go to http://www.shewrites.com/group/bloggingaboutbooks/forum/topics/our-blogs-1
and enter your name and blog with embedded link as described in…
OUR BLOGS
For a quick peek at who the Blogging about Books and Writing gang is, our blogs are:Brock, Ren Her Silent MusingsCamp, Kevin …See More
Meg Waite Clayton added a discussion to the group Blogging about Books and Writing!
We've done the hard work for you. We've paid the big bucks to program this app. Now it's yours http://dld.bz/a75x2
Status posted by Nanci Arvizu
Top Content
Badge
© 2012 Created by Kamy Wicoff.
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
