Mary Gaitskill's Books
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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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New York Times, November 20, 2009
...how could I have forgotten the magical powers of Grace Paley? — and Bellow and early Roth. Also Mary Gaitskill, as if ?Veronica? didn’t torture me enough the first time, and John Barth and Amy Hempel and Denis Johnson, and so many of the stories that...
National Post, November 14, 2009
...Farrant Malla Nunn Man Booker Man Booker International Prize Margaret Christakos Mari-Lou Rowley Martin Jacques Mary Ann Shaffer Mary Gaitskill Michle Laframboise Michael Cho Michael J. Hind Michael Kimmage Michael Lista Miles From Nowhere Nobody Move...
Irish World News, September 21, 2009
...year include Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Orange Prize winner Chimanda Ngozi Adiche, veteran short story authors Ali Smith, Mary Gaitskill and James Lasdun and Sana Krasikov. To read our recent interview with Simon Van Booy, click HERE...
Irish World News, September 21, 2009
...year include Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Orange Prize winner Chimanda Ngozi Adiche, veteran short story authors Ali Smith, Mary Gaitskill and James Lasdun and Sana Krasikov. To read our recent interview with Simon Van Booy, click . 21/09/2009 -...
Irish World News, September 21, 2009
...year include Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro, Orange Prize winner Chimanda Ngozi Adiche, veteran short story authors Ali Smith, Mary Gaitskill and James Lasdun and Sana Krasikov. http://beautiful-books.co.uk To read our recent interview with Simon Van Booy,...
Slate Magazine, September 18, 2009
...three novels under his belt, each of them to their credit weirder than this creampuff. operates in a Mary Gaitskill mode of grubby sex and ground-in misery; is a sparkly and expansive number about chasing dreams and trannies; reads like an awkward homage...
Bookslut, September 10, 2009
...are taboo for female writers? No. Really? Well, maybe it's just my experience, but when I met Mary Gaitskill right after she wrote Veronica, I told her 'I love this book because you're writing about subjects that are still taboo for women writers.' And...
Boston Globe, September 8, 2009
...Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision, which she found condescending to black people. The congenitally-on-the-verge novelist Mary Gaitskill tries to parody Norman Mailers bombast, but she does remind us how forgettable and mired in...
Boston Globe, September 8, 2009
...Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision, which she found condescending to black people. The congenitally-on-the-verge novelist Mary Gaitskill tries to parody Norman Mailers bombast, but she does remind us how forgettable and mired in...
National Post, August 15, 2009
...managed the unthinkable: you have slept with so many men you?ve lost count.? It feels like warmed-over Mary Gaitskill, circa Bad Behavior. Attempting too much ? too many scenes and ideas over too many years ? make some stories seem like outlines...
Times Union, July 19, 2009
...Mary Gaitskill doesn't shy away from difficult aspects of life Mary Gaitskill's stories collected in the new volume 'Don't Cry' are not for the faint of heart. Someone...
USA Today, July 6, 2009
...Fifty-Two Stories has already posted complete stories by Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Laura Lippman, Louise Erdrich, Dennis Cooper, Mary Gaitskill ... the list goes on, and they still have many more weeks to go. Most works are short enough so that you can...
The Bookseller, July 4, 2009
...writing on J G Ballard, an extract from a memoir-in-progress from Rupert Thompson, an essay from US author Mary Gaitskill and poems by late Palestinian writer Mahmoud Darwish. The Chicago issue, which follows, will include Wole Soyinka writing about...
Irish Times, July 3, 2009
...picked from a long list that included major names such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Chimanda Ngozi Adiche, Ali Smith, Mary Gaitskill and James Lasdun. The winner will be announced in Cork on September 20th at the 10th Frank OConnor International Short Story...
Globe and Mail, July 1, 2009
...Full disclosure: I know Rutherford, and I am one of the participants. So are the U.S. author Mary Gaitskill (who writes densely and brilliantly about both baroque opera and Lady Gaga), the British author Joanna Kavenna (who writes on Jung and Hamlet ),...
Bennington Banner, June 12, 2009
...of acting from the Neighborhood Playhouse School, and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Friday, June 19 Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica and the story collections Don't Cry, Bad Behavior, and...
National Post, June 9, 2009
...flying -- something to which Freeman can relate. The next issue of Granta will also include memoirs from Mary Gaitskill and Rupert Thomson, while the following issue, focusing on Chicago, will feature new writing from Aleksandar Hemon,Chris Ware, Don...
The Nation, May 21, 2009
...of evolution? Vivian Gornick& William Deresiewicz William Deresiewicz: With Don't Cry, a disabling self-consciousness has crept into Mary Gaitskill's fiction. The appeal of evolutionary psychology is easy to grasp. Just think of Annie Hall. The last few...
Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2009
...are not alone.? At the fiction panel 'Exiles and Outsiders' on Sunday at the Festival of Books, authors Mary Gaitskill, Aimee Bender, Dylan Landis and Giocanda Belli ? four female writers described by moderator Donna Rifkind as ?not authors you can...
Syracuse Online, April 20, 2009
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NPR, April 19, 2009
...Writer Mary Gaitskill delves into the innermost thoughts of her characters, however troubling they may be. Ideas of sex and psychosis often unfold on the page, painting portraits of damaged souls. But...
Individual.com, April 19, 2009
...Fiction Don't Cry: Stories. Mary Gaitskill. Pantheon Books. $23.95. 226 pp. Mary Gaitskill's first book, the story collection Bad Behavior (1988), established her as a young writer with an unflinching eye for the...
Article Dashboard.com, April 17, 2009
...the music of punk rock legends Sonic Youth. The all-star contributors include Hiag Akmakjian, Christopher Coake, Katherine Dunn, Mary Gaitskill, Rebecca Godfrey, Laird Hunt, Shelley Jackson, J. Robert Lennon, Samuel Ligon, Emily Maguire, Tom McCarthy,...
National Post, April 11, 2009
...Open Book by Philip Marchand Mary Gaitskill is one of those fiction writers ? Vancouver?s Evelyn Lau, who has written about her experiences as a prostitute, may be a Canadian equivalent ? shadowed by her...
Shanghai Daily, March 29, 2009
...or diversion they might offer. No writer understands and gratifies the voyeurism inherent in reading fiction better than Mary Gaitskill. 'Don't Cry,' her third collection of stories, confirms what made 'Bad Behavior' and 'Because They Wanted To' such...
International Herald Tribune, March 25, 2009
...Don't Cry Stories By Mary Gaitskill 226 pages. Pantheon Books. $23.95. Fiction gives readers access to the private lives of characters who don't know they're being watched, people who seem real ?...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 23, 2009
...Don?t Cry. By Mary Gaitskill. Pantheon. 240 pages. $23.95. more photos Zeina Makky Don?t Cry. By Mary Gaitskill. Pantheon. 240 pages. $23.95. In one of the stories in 'Don't Cry...
New York Times, March 21, 2009
...or diversion they might offer. No writer understands and gratifies the voyeurism inherent in reading fiction better than Mary Gaitskill. Dont Cry, her third collection of stories, confirms what made Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To such...
Helium, March 11, 2009
...a collection titled On the Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology including work from regular patrons such as Mary Gaitskill, Ben Marcus, Jonathan Lethem, and Joyce Carol Oates to name a few. In the words of KGB's own description of the collection: 'In...
Examiner.com, March 2, 2009
...excerpting his novel via Twitter. Not as exciting as rafting, but definitely more visible. Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill Before she was known for her National-Book-Award-winning novel Veronica, this literary giant was celebrated for her short stories....
Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2009
...guess, will be posting a story a week all year long. So far, they've posted pieces by Mary Gaitskill, Louise Erdrich, Tom Piazza and Tony O'Neill, all contemporary authors with books from the publisher. Cather's story will be in their April collection...
Dogmatika, January 26, 2009
...Scott Mebus? curveball take on Bull in the Heather, Rebecca Godfrey?s confessional Shadow of a Doubt and Mary Gaitskill?s near fairy-tale reminiscence Wish Fulfillment sparked by a song which 'caught me when I was falling, years ago, falling...
Nylon Magazine, January 16, 2009
...gathered team of talented writers like National Book Award finalist Jess Walter and National Book Critics Circle finalist Mary Gaitskill. And it?s only the beginning?this is the first installment of the ?Fiction inspired by?? series, with a...
Glasgow Herald, December 31, 2008
...Hope Third Class Superhero ? Charles Yu Homecoming ? Carys Davies Tickets Please ? DH Lawrence Heaven ? Mary Gaitskill Wood ? Deborah Kay Davies You wouldn?t go wrong working your way through those. Me, I?m off to find a novel to read...
New York Times, December 9, 2008
...us to be creative, to seek out and find our little private erotic spaces. In an entertaining interview, Mary Gaitskill tells how she first realized, at the age of 8, that sex was potentially violent: I got that from watching cartoons. Mighty Mouse,...
Three Percent - Article, October 9, 2009
...in affiliation with Fence Magazine this year’s contest will be judged by Mary Jo Bang (poetry) and Mary Gaitskill (fiction) and the winners in each category will have their work published in Fence (and journals in the respective SLS countries) and will...
Sound of the City, September 14, 2009
...Author Mary Gaitskill Raps Das Racist's "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Really. MP3 and Everything. By Zach Baron in Brooklyn Book Festival , Featured , Mary Gaitskill...
clusterflock, September 1, 2009
...The New Yorker Fiction podcast on iTunes is a free podcast that has contemporary authors reading and discussing the work of other authors. It’s a fantastic way to get an introduction to people you had heard of, or discover new authors to love. Get...
SoundWord: The Best Music Blog Posts, July 31, 2009
...way to their recently published book. Lydia Peele's short fiction has earned comparisons to Alice Munro and Mary Gaitskill, but her voice is... Read The Full Article: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/largeheartedboy/~3/ecFb3xo-C8c/book_notes_lydi.htm l Add...
An Accident of Hope, June 12, 2009
...I went to see Mary Gaitskill read at KGB Bar last night. There are few people I still have mild rock star groupie feelings for and Gaitskill is one of them. Her novel Veronica rocked...
New York NY | outside.in, May 23, 2009
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The Stranger: Slog, April 29, 2009
...Reading Mary Gaitskill It's almost a shame that Mary Gaitskill is best known for writing the story on which the Maggie Gyllenhaal movie Secretary is based. Though much of her work...
[Technorati] Tag results for short, April 27, 2009
...Mary Gaitskill is off her game 27.Apr.09 By Jodi Chromey Go to comments Leave a comment What has always drawn me to the short stories of Mary Gaitskill is...
The Book Publicity Blog, April 24, 2009
...Achy Obejas All Things Considered Book Reviews / Columbine Dave Cullen All Things Considered Don’t Cry Mary Gaitskill All Things Considered Remembrances / ‘Empire Of The Sun’ Novelist Ballard Dies All Things Considered ...
BookFox, April 22, 2009
...Muriel Barbery of Elegance of the Hedgehog fame. Uwem Akpan of Say You're One of Them fame. Mary Gaitskill, most recently out with Don't Cry . Wells Tower, the short story author of the moment. Marilynne Robinson, of Everything I Write Is Awesome fame...
Kanlaon, April 2, 2009
...of Empire : Flora Fraser’s Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire (5) After reading Kathryn Harrison’s review of Mary Gaitskill’s new collection, Don’t Cry : Everything by Mary Gaitskill: In addition to Don’t Cry , her two earlier...
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...The amazing Mary Gaitskill has a new book out . I like all of Gaitskill’s work, but her stories especially, and so I’m very excited about this new book, which I don...
The Millions, March 29, 2009
...he was attentive to everything ." Cathleen Schine admires Zoe Heller's The Believers . The Village Voice praises Mary Gaitskill's " ludicrous mastery ." In two long posts , Blographia Literaria offers a thoughtful alternative to our take on The Kindly...
Ephemerist, March 27, 2009
...Did you know that Mary Gaitskill has a new short story collection, Don’t Cry , out? I very much look forward to buying and reading that. I’ve heard good things about John Wray...
Omnivoracious, March 26, 2009
...crisis. Our Choice will answer that call." [via GalleyCat] Gaitskill, Deconstructed Vulture offers a clever feature on Mary Gaitskill's newest story collection, Don't Cry (don't miss Tom's review for our Best of the Month roundup), that aims to show how...
Nancy Rommelmann, March 25, 2009
...I had just dipped my toe into the world of writing, back in 1989, when I read Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior , and thought, you can do that? And, she just did that? It was thrilling in the deepest sense, also disturbing, and intimidating, and probably...
Literary Kicks, March 22, 2009
...Burroway’s or my own. Probably my own. The tragic-minded Kathryn Harrison was born to review books by Mary Gaitskill, and she pulls out all the stops for Gaitskill’s new book of stories, Don’t Cry . It’s a well-written piece but, again, I don’t...
Incurable Logophilia, February 6, 2009
...of the biggies I probably should have dipped into by now - Salmon Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Saul Bellow, Mary Gaitskill, Derek Walcott, Harold Pinter, Lydia Davis, Shirley Hazzard, E.L. Doctorow, Jonathan Franzen, and Norman Mailer. This year will see...
Sycamore Review, January 30, 2009
...architect Frank Lloyd Wright and is told from the point of view of the women in his life. Mary Gaitskill's new collection of stories, Don't Cry , expected out in March. Her novel, Veronica , was a National Book Award finalist in 2005. Colson Whitehead's...
Mick LaSalle, January 27, 2009
...Rand inspired the rock band Rush to create a concept album based on one of her books. In Mary Gaitskill's Two Girls Fat and Thin there's a character based on Rand. Posted By: DeeDeeTee | January 28 2009 at 12:05 PM Who has time to read...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, January 11, 2009
...first candidate for inclusion, and going forward, I would appreciate any suggestions that you have for the Deprogrammer . Mary Gaitskill: Two Girls, Fat and Thin I spent much of my vacation reading Mary Gaitskill's Two Girls, Fat and Thin , where Ayn...
denialism blog, January 11, 2009
...first candidate for inclusion, and going forward, I would appreciate any suggestions that you have for the Deprogrammer . Mary Gaitskill: Two Girls, Fat and Thin I spent much of my vacation reading Mary Gaitskill's Two Girls, Fat and Thin , where Ayn...
Books in 140, January 6, 2009
...the title to find it. jodiwilldare Looking forward to the new short story collections by Ali Smith and Mary Gaitskill i_am_lisa This year, at least for the 1st 1/2, I’m going to be reading lots of YA books for class. The 2nd 1/2, reading whatever I...
Newblogger Can't Swim, December 15, 2008
...as well as award-winning and established writers. Contributors have included Peter Orner, Robert Glück, Pam Houston, Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Ray Bradbury. Part of the vibrant literary heritage of the west coast...
Cultural Snow, December 7, 2008
...for aping the tropes of Hustler and Penthouse? Or enjoy a discreet hand shandy of his/her own? (Incidentally, Mary Gaitskill in the back-cover blurb describes The Fermata as "Rabelaisian" which is one of those glorious critical references that's taken on...
