700. Gina Frangello

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Gina Frangello is the author of the memoir Blow Your House Down, available from Counterpoint Press. This is Gina's second time on the program. She first appeared in Episode 16 on November 9, 2011. Frangello's other books include Every Kind of Wanting, A Life in Men, Slut Lullabies, and My Sister's Continent. Her short fiction, essays, book reviews, and journalism have been published in Ploughshares, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, HuffPost, Fence, Five Chapters, Prairie Schooner, Chicago Reader, and many other publications. She lives with her family in the Chicago area. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, how you doing everybody? Welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. This is the 700th episode of this show.
0:15.4	700 episodes. Over a decade. The show's going to be 10 years old in September.
0:22.8	Have I mentioned that this year?
0:23.9	This is the 10th year of this podcast.
0:26.1	It's hard to believe.
0:27.5	It's hard to believe that there are 700 episodes out there,
0:30.6	but here we are.
0:32.6	And I have as my guest today, Gina Franjello.
0:36.5	She's an old pal of mine. I've known her for more than a decade
0:39.9	now. And she has a new memoir out from Counterpoint. It is called Blow Your House Down. And it is an
0:51.2	incredibly powerful book, a searing work of self-examination.
0:57.7	It's about a marriage coming apart.
1:00.4	It's about an affair.
1:02.1	It's about motherhood.
1:04.3	It's about daughterhood.
1:05.9	It's about sisterhood.
1:09.5	It's about illness. It's about truth. It's about lies. It's about survival.
1:18.5	It's about a lot of different things. And the reason it's about a lot of different things is because
1:23.8	Gina Fragelo went through an incredible amount of shit in a very concentrated period of time.
1:34.6	That's what this book covers.
1:38.8	And I cannot imagine that I will read this year a book more powerful than blow your house down.
1:47.1	I sort of hope I don't.
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