{"id":1457,"date":"2010-12-12T12:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:35:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:35:54","slug":"short_stories_s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/12\/short_stories_s-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Short stories: Slut Lullabies, by Gina Frangello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gift from some generous twinsers.<\/p>\n<p>I think Gina Frangello is really a fantastic writer and she&#8217;s someone I learned about in Chicago from other Chicago writers and eventually heard read\/met back in the earlier days of me living here.<\/p>\n<p>Her previous novel &#8220;My Sister&#8217;s Continent&#8221; (read in 2006 on Mariko&#8217;s and my flight to Australia&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/readin.html\">you can search this page for &#8220;Frangello&#8221;<\/a> ) was really dark and nasty and sadomasochistic and brutal and really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>These stories are, if anything, even darker. To the point where, WOW, some of them were really tough to get through.  Some I liked despite their nastiness&#8230;some were actually too cruel for me, very hard to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>I would highly recommend her novel&#8211;if you can handle the darkness&#8211;but I would tread lightly around these stories. And if you&#8217;re in a bad, depressed, emotional frame of mind, good heavens, people, do NOT read them then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gift from some generous twinsers. I think Gina Frangello is really a fantastic writer and she&#8217;s someone I learned about in Chicago from other Chicago writers and eventually heard read\/met back in the earlier days of me living here. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/12\/short_stories_s-2.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}