Larry McCaffery interviews Cris Mazza at his home in San Diego. Mazza, who was a graduate student of McCaffery’s at San Diego State, discusses in depth the majority of short stories that appear in her collections Animal Acts and Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?. Mazza discusses the stories in relation to current events, such as the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial. Mazza explains how she came to write many of the stories and how the process relates to her soon-to-be published novel and her several unpublished novels.
