Book Release - Gina School, It's Not What They Teach You; It's What You Learn by Gina Barreca

STORRS, Conn. - Sept. 30, 2025 - PRLog -- Dr. Gina Barreca has made millions of readers laugh, think, and feel seen. Now, in GINA SCHOOL (Woodhall Press; October 7, 2025; paperback original), Gina Barreca opens the doors to her most personal, provocative, and laugh-out-loud collection yet. Whether you're an anxious applicant, a lifelong learner, a book club rebel, or just someone looking for a little reassurance and a lot of sass—you belong here.

Beautifully illustrated with artwork by John Guillemette and endlessly comforting, GINA SCHOOL is the book we all need now. GINA SCHOOL offers open, early, and rolling admissions to 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.

Reassuring 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, GINA SCHOOL is a book you'll return to with delight. You never have to graduate, and it pairs just as well with coffee and cake, cheese and fruit, espresso and champagne—and, if you wish, a cap and gown.

With eight million (and counting) readers of her Psychology Today blog-column, Dr. Gina Barreca has been praised widely: People magazine called her "smart and funny." Wally Lamb says, "Barreca's prose, in equal measures, is hilarious and humane." Ms. Magazine notes her "characteristic wit and wisdom." The Chicago Tribune raves, "Barreca learned to do what any sassy smarty-pants would: challenge stale ideas and press buttons." The L.A. Times applauds that "Barreca writes with intelligence and wit." Booklist says she "gets it just right," while Publishers Weekly praises her as "an unfailingly winning narrator" who provides readers with "humor along with serious insight."  Author of eleven books, Gina is also the editor of seventeen others, including 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.    www.ginabarreca.com