Cris Mazza on How Memory and Geography Intertwine With Sexuality
February 19, 2016
Hosted by Tristan Taormino
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Episode Description
This week's guest is award-winning writer & teacher Cris Mazza to discuss Something Wrong With Her, a hybrid memoir, and the companion piece to her most recent novel, Various Men Who Knew Us As Girls. In the past 15 years, Cris Mazza’s work as a novelist expanded as she continued to consider psychological and emotional complexities of life, but has begun to do so with the contributing complication of place: How regions or localities that still have their own unique characteristics of landscape, society, and culture impact the human experiences (sexuality, family, authority, gender) that Mazza explores in fiction. Mazza’s latest books, Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls and Something Wrong With Her, return to her native San Diego in the 70s and 80s, and the unsettling times before law governing sexual harassment existed.
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