The Sunday Rumpus Review: Something Wrong with Her by Cris Mazza
“[T]his is not a book about overcoming anorgasmia,” says Cris Mazza in the author’s note to her memoir, Something Wrong with Her. Yet there on the cover is a reference to “frigidity,” the fraught and...
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
I know it’s hard, but maybe it’s best if you take a part of your morning to ignore the central emptiness that governs all of our motivations and extrapersonal interactions and read the weekend...
View ArticleChoosing 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...
View ArticleThe Sunday Rumpus Essay: Oneiric (another word I’ve never said)
In a 1-minute video, circulated in the usual ways, a swarthy outdoorsy man with lots of dark wavy hair is holding a black wolf puppy, about 3 or 4 weeks old, probably being raised in captivity. The man...
View ArticleWho 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,...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A Finished Brain
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and...
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