Charlatan: New and Selected Stories

by Cris Mazza, Rick Moody (Foreword), Gina Frangello (Introduction)

Cris Mazza's work has often been regarded as "disturbing" for its exploration of sexual politics, victimhood, personal accountability, and acts of sexual violence. With an introduction by Gina Frangello and a foreword by Rick Moody, Charlatan charts the development of a dynamic body of fiction by a writer due for discovery by millennial readers unsatisfied by mainstream feminism. Cris Mazza is the author of over seventeen books. Rick Moody is the author of more than a dozen books and a Guggenheim Fellow. Gina Frangello is the author of four books and an editor at The Coachella Review .

Genres: Short Stories

320 pages, Paperback

Published November 14, 2017

About the author

Cris Mazza is the author of a dozen books of fiction, mostly recently Waterbaby (Soft Skull Press 2007). Her other titles include the critically acclaimed Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, and the PEN Nelson Algren Award winning How to Leave a Country. She also has a collection of personal essays, Indigenous: Growing Up Californian. Mazza has been the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and three Illinois Arts Council literary awards. A native of Southern California, Mazza grew up in San Diego County. Currently she lives 50 miles west of Chicago. She is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago "

Reviews

[Theen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a candid, fearless and brutally eccentric collection of stories. The subject of each story was so unique but spoke to much larger issues; often those that women face in this world (and others).

I liked some stories more than others, and to be honest I think some of them were intentionally ambiguous so that the reader was left with a decision; sometimes one of controversy.

Anyways regardless of my opinion I think this should have way more hype than it seems to have here on GR anyway. If anything, these stories will both shock you and make you think.

3.5 stars




**tw: mentions sexual assault, harassment, & graphic imagery of sex**

[Brooks Sterritt · Rating 5 out of 5]

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