Gina School - Paperback

by Gina Barreca (Author), John Guillemette (Illustrator)

With eight million (and counting) readers of her Psychology Today blog-column, People magazine called Dr. Gina Barreca "smart and funny." Bestselling novelist Wally Lamb says, "Barreca's prose, in equal measures, is hilarious and humane." "Feminist humor maven [Gina Barreca offers] her characteristic wit and wisdom," writes Ms. Magazine. "Barreca learned to do what any sassy smarty-pants would: challenge stale ideas and press buttons," raves the Chicago Tribune. "Barreca writes with intelligence and wit," applauds the L.A. Times. Everyone's favorite professor and advisor Gina Barreca is "wicked, witty, and wonderful," (Library Journal), who "gets it just right (Booklist) and "... is an unfailingly winning narrator," providing her readers with "humor along with serious insight" (Publishers Weekly).

GINA SCHOOL offers open, early, and rolling admissions, perpetual latecomers, mature students, speed readers, book groups, gloriously erudite librarians, anxious applicants in need of reassurance, writers in need of prompts, and gift givers. Extravagantly illustrated, provocative, reassuring and witty, GINA SCHOOL-- a gorgeously delicate yet voluptuous volume -- is virtually impossible to resist as an emotional support book, a motivating tome, and a daily inspiration source. GINA SCHOOL reassures readers that they are not alone, they are not nuts, and that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without hugging them. You never have to graduate from GINA SCHOOL and will return with delight, given that it pairs just as well with coffee and cake, cheese and fruit, espresso and champagne--and, if you wish, a cap and gown.

Author Biography

Gina Barreca's classic on women's humor, They Used to Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted, was followed by Perfect Husbands (And Other Fairy Tales), Sweet Revenge, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League, and It's Not That I'm Bitter, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World. Author of eleven books, she's also the editor of seventeen others, including Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing, and the Fast Women series for Woodhall Press. Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Connecticut, Gina has appeared on "American Masters," "This American Life," the TODAY show, CNN, the BBC, and Oprah. Barreca's been published by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Harvard Business Review. Her blog for Psychology Today has more than 8 million views. You can find her in the Library of Congress or the make-up aisle at Walgreens.

John Guillemette is a writer and artist who enjoys hikes, houseplants, and disparaging mankind. He reads monks and drunks; if a monk wrote it, or a drunk wrote it, then he's probably read it. His satire has appeared in Little Old Lady Comedy, and his stories have been published in The Wild Word, Book of Matches, and Long River Review, where he received the Edwin Way Teale Award for nature writing. He lives in New Haven, CT.