Who didn’t feel the sexual awakenings she knew she was supposed to feel, andĪbout the boy who loved her nonetheless. Rather, it is a poignant memoir about a girl The surplus of contemporary sexual memoirs would have us believeīook about overcoming anorgasmia. Suggests that at least 75% of women cannot reach orgasms through vaginal She is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Ī groundbreaking “real-time” memoir by author Cris Mazza that begins with Currently she lives 50 miles west of Chicago. A native of Southern California, Mazza grew up in San Diego County. Mazza has been the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and three Illinois Arts Council literary awards. She also has a collection of personal essays, Indigenous: Growing Up Californian. Her other titles include the critically acclaimed Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, and the PEN Nelson Algren Award winning How to Leave a Country. Today, we kick off the Cris Mazza " Something Wrong With Her" Blog Tour with a special audio clip of Cris reading an excerpt from her memoir.Ĭris is the author of a dozen books of fiction, mostly recently Waterbaby (Soft Skull Press 2007). And that makes it all the more sweeter when you see, or rather, hear them read excerpts from their own novels, in their own voices, the way their stories were meant to be heard. Hatched in a NYC club during BEA week, this feature requires more work of the author than any of the ones that have come before. We Listen." is an incredibly special one for us.
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