Something Wrong with Her
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A Finished Brain
In her twenties, the author was criticized for showing too much emotion. Decades later, having learned to compartmentalize, she’s accused of not being able to feel. Is this depression, or contentment?
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Who Are We Writing For?
Sandwiched between fictions on one side and instructions on the other, a woman is often denied the breathing room necessary to find her individual sexuality. In a conversation at the Nervous Breakdown, Rumpus contributor Ashley Perez and author Cris Mazza…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Oneiric (another word I’ve never said)
Novelist and memoirist Cris Mazza deconstructs bravery, the function of dreaming–both canine and human–and a lost-love rekindled after 25 years.
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Choosing to Look
Cris Mazza, author of nineteen books– including the soon-to-be-released Something Wrong with Her— writes about gender relations, sexuality, and society’s distorted perceptions of value. By her own assessment, Mazza has written herself into the question of whether skewed perceptions of…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Something Wrong with Her by Cris Mazza
Mazza wants to raise the issue prominently, but not to resolve it. In a way, she seeks to create for us the discomfort, the lack of resolution she feels in her own life.