Cris Mazza

A Novel

Waterbaby

Labeled "disabled" by her family after manifesting epilepsy in childhood, Tam burns out after thirty years of strict vigilance and relocates to Maine, where she learns about the fates of two women whose tragic lives mirror her own. Original.

Phelan, a sculptor, and Tara, the painter he lives with, are engaged in a strange relationship--she can remember events from his life, but not from her own, and he can remember the inspiration for her paintings, but she cannot remember painting them

How to Leave a Country

Engaging memoir about growing up in rural Southern California and identifying as a "Californian" for life.

Growing Up Californian

Indigenous

Steve Almond

Megan Giddings

Rick Moody

Stephen Dixon

Edward Gauvin

Weston Cutter

Thomas Owen

Jesse Damiani

Richard Peabody

Rae Bryant

Kyle Noe

Lindsay Lusby

Andrew Roe

Morgan Elliot

Marjorie Maddox

Jason Olsen

Chad Simpson

Moira Egan

David Everett

Billie Tadros

David Wagoner

Ogun Afariogun

Jill Birdsall

Nathan Blake

Carlyn Davis

Matt Ferner

Suzanne Hopcroft

Don Hucks

Len Kuntz

Alexis Covato

B. J. Lloyd

Bird Marathe

Jacob Oet

Joseph A. W. Quintela

Chas Schroeder

The Size Queens

Michael Shum

Vallie Lynn Watson

John Silbey Williams

Britt Gambino

Chelsey Clammer

Gabriela Romeri

Vipra Ghimire

Lisa A. Dulin

Mark Farrington

"Eclectic selection of work from both emerging and established writers...." (The Washington Post), Eckleburg is a collection of stories, poetry, translations, and artwork by award-winning and emerging talents such as Rick Moody, Stephen Dixon, Cris Mazza, and Eckleburg's 2013 Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction winner, Jill Birdsall. Eckleburg No. 18 is a textual and graphic innovation for both the traditionalists and nonconformists.

The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review No. 18

Fiction. In the 80's a young woman advertises her services as a model to photographers; she discovers their weaknesses, seduces them, then extorts them by claiming to be under-age. In the 90's a 40-something man is married to a doctor who only views him as a sex object. In these two reversals of sexual harassment and gender-inferiority, Mazza explores such issues asthe lnaguage of bodies, sexual desirability, latent adolescence, plus whatever the genders share...and what they can never share.

Many Ways to Get It, Many Ways to Say it

Jeffrey DeShell

Chick Lit Postfeminist Fiction

Elisabeth Sheffield

The follow-up volume to Mazza and DeShell's hugely popular Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction Chick-Lit 2: No Chick Vics features new work by Rikki Ducornet, Eurydice, Elizabeth Graver, Ursule Molinaro, and fourteen other witty and deadly serious writers. Chick-Lit 2 discovers new and alternative voices in women's fiction whose stories do not involve trauma that comes from the outside. As Mazza writes in her introduction, "Sexual assaults and harassments and injurious poor body images do exist and have waged a war on women (the American Medical Association says so). But for this book, I was interested in seeing what action(s) women characters can incite on their own, whether bad or good, hopeful or dead-end, progressive or destructive."

(no Chick Vics)

Chick-lit 2

Transgressive and addictive, Mazza once again probes the limits of human relationships, taking her readers into a region of dark sexuality, torn between love and destruction."--BOOK JACKET.

Girl Beside Him

Would her life have been better if she’d had sex with her supervisor when she was 23? Hester Smith is a woman who always played life near the sidelines—until she decides to rescue a teenage Mexican prostitute. She’s up against the border sex trade in Southern California that works like a drug cartel, where the smuggled contraband is teenage girls forced to work as prostitutes in undeveloped canyons just outside suburbia. Law enforcement agencies know it happens, as do investigative journalists, yet the illegal sex trade continues to exist. Most people, comfortable in their homes only miles away, express some brand of shock in the moment they hear about it—and then they go on with their lives, assured there’s nothing they can do. While she prepares for the rescue, Hester discovers that the man with whom she almost had an affair—her mentor when she was a 23 year-old student teacher—had been simultaneously having a sexual relationship with a 16 year-old student. Hester mines her own memories of the would-be affair and ultimately tracks down the former 16 year-old. When these two women with a shared scandal in their pasts confront one another, the meeting coincides with the last step necessary to rescue the teenage prostitute Hester has tried to protect. It is only this mayhem that allows Hester to finally take ownership of her decisions and regrets.

Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls

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