Mary Gaitskill's Books
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Because They Wanted ToA New York Times Notable Book A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his capacity for...Read More -
Two Girls, Fat and ThinThis captivating novel shimmers with dark intensity and wicked wit. In a stunning synthesis of eroticism, rage, pathos, and humor, Gaitskill's "fine...Read More
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Bad BehaviorNational Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection—powerful stories of dislocation and desire which depict a disenchanted urban...Read More
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Kirkus Reviews, April 7, 2013
...houses) and whether he revises as he goes (yes and no). Sheila Heti wants to know more about Mary Gaitskill’s affinity for longhand. (It allows you to get “heavily immersed in your own being,” Gaitskill says.) Aleksander Hemon waxes dramatic...
WKAR, April 3, 2013
...Liberty. A real estate blog calculates the value of Hogwarts Castle and comes up with $204.1 million. "Mary Gaitskill's great-great-grandfather invented the beer helmet." and other literary rumors from Vice magazine. The New York Review of Books...
Oregonian, March 30, 2013
...Peter Rock Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $23, 214 pages By NANCY ROMMELMANN Let us talk about deeply imagined fiction, Mary Gaitskill's "Veronica" and the stories of Paul Bowles and now Peter Rock's "The Shelter Cycle," books that follow no familiar...
Oregonian, March 29, 2013
..." She referenced the movie "Precious" and the TV show "Girls" and name-dropped Madonna and Courtney Love and Mary Gaitskill and spoke reverently about David Milch, the creator of "Deadwood." She said she’d been to Brazil and Japan and spoke to large...
Capital Times, March 25, 2013
...— is that characters need not be heroic or winning to change your life. 2. “Bad Behavior” by Mary Gaitskill (1989). Dark is an understatement. Gaitskill’s stories mine the seedy underbelly of relationships, and I found them shocking, thrilling,...
Torch, March 5, 2013
...the people being assholes.” Gay listed some of her idols as her mother, Edith Wharton, Michael Chabon and Mary Gaitskill. Of Gaitskill she said, “I think she was one of the first women like, ‘Aw, f*ck it. I’m gonna write about sex. It’s...
Daily Targum, February 22, 2013
...when reading. The difference between written and performed stories was evident at last week’s Program, where author Mary Gaitskill read from her short story “The Other Place.” “The Other Place” is told by a single narrator who speaks about a...
Concordia University, January 8, 2013
...tradition of diverse literary reading series at Concordia University and has hosted authors including Lydia Davis, Roddy Doyle, Mary Gaitskill, and CD Wright. We welcome Madeleine Thien, who, along with Charles Bernstein, Rae Armantrout, Chris Kraus,...
Onion AV Club, January 3, 2013
...more than 20 books in her 20s (hundreds, ladies!), add your own favorites in the comments. Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill Gaitskill’s now-legendary debut collection, full of longing, strange sex, dislocation and disillusionment, reminds us that no...
Blogcritics.org, January 1, 2013
...to each member of a three-person jury who independently choose their favorite. This years jury was comprised of Mary Gaitskill, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and Ron Rash, all three past recipients of an O. Henry Prize or PEN / O. Henry Prize, and like past...
Huffington Post, December 17, 2012
...someone to thoughts of his own . . . and this seems a sentiment worthy enough to tack over our desks. Mary Gaitskill, when an interviewer said that he was confused by her characters in her novel Veronica, that he didn't know how he should feel about...
Target Marketing Magazine, December 17, 2012
...on paper — after the conversation. I’m not alone. This is how novelist and short story writer Mary Gaitskill expressed it: Writing is in some way being able to sit down the next day and go through everything you wanted to say, finding the right...
IBNLive India News, December 13, 2012
...Dallas Wiebe, Joy Williams Comments by: Daniel Alarcon, Ann Beattie, David Bezmozgis, Lydia Davis, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Mary Gaitskill, Aleksandar Hemon, Amy Hempel, Jonathan Lethem, Sam Lipsyte, Ben Marcus, David Means, Lorrie Moore, Daniel...
WBUR, December 11, 2012
...will be begin release in early 2013. Some of the collaborators involved so far are authors Rick Moody, Mary Gaitskill, Wesley Stace/John Wesley Harding, songwriters Kristin Hersh and Bill Janovitz, Claudia Gonson and Sam Davol of Magnetic Fields, One...
