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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
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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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Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 8, 2012
...cue from Wade, is trying to create something, make sense of himself -- to, as a character in Mary Gaitskill's "Veronica" has it, "live like music" -- but what he ends up with is not so much music as liner notes. Ellen Akins is a writer in Cornucopia...
Kenya Star, April 19, 2012
...Her Reading Habits What book is on your night stand now? Right now I'm looking right at Mary Gaitskill's "Bad Behavior"; the new Diane Keaton autobiography; "Having It All," by Helen Gurley Brown (research); and "The Consolations of Philosophy," by Alain...
Huffington Post, April 19, 2012
...: What book is on your night stand now? Right now I'm looking right at Mary Gaitskill's "Bad Behavior"; the new Diane Keaton autobiography; "Having It All," by Helen Gurley Brown (research); and "The Consolations of Philosophy," by Alain de Botton - all...
Huffington Post, April 5, 2012
...her post for TheAtlantic.com, Kelly mentions both Moby-Dick (undeniably a classic to almost everyone) as well as Mary Gaitskill's Veronica (far too "young" in its book life to be heralded as a classic even if it has all of the right ingredients). I know...
Huffington Post, April 5, 2012
...her post for TheAtlantic.com, Kelly mentions both Moby-Dick (undeniably a classic to almost everyone) as well as Mary Gaitskill's Veronica (far too "young" in its book life to be heralded as a classic even if it has all of the right ingredients). I know...
Globe and Mail, April 4, 2012
...of what contemporary women apparently want. Secretary (2002) This film has little in common with Bad Behaviour, the Mary Gaitskill short story that inspired it. Its a pretty straightforward romance about a well-dressed rich man who abuses his secretary...
Atlantic Monthly, March 26, 2012
...finishing a classic? Or anything but intellectually stimulated after tearing through a work of modern lit like, say, Mary Gaitskill's Veronica ? And though a television show isn't likely to stay with you too long beyond the night that you watch it,...
Individual.com, March 19, 2012
...man (or woman) ever blushed at passages of Sabbath's Theater, or any other Philip Roth book? Or Mary Gaitskill's bondage tale "Secretary"? Does no one remember The Story of O? Madame Bovary? The biblical Song of Songs? Maybe it's the book's origin as a...
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 2012
...man (or woman) ever blushed at passages of Sabbath's Theater, or any other Philip Roth book? Or Mary Gaitskill's bondage tale "Secretary"? Does no one remember The Story of O? Madame Bovary? The biblical Song of Songs? Maybe it's the book's origin as a...
Philly.com, March 18, 2012
...man (or woman) ever blushed at passages of Sabbath's Theater, or any other Philip Roth book? Or Mary Gaitskill's bondage tale "Secretary"? Does no one remember The Story of O? Madame Bovary? The biblical Song of Songs? Maybe it's the book's origin as a...
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 2012
...man (or woman) ever blushed at passages of Sabbath's Theater, or any other Philip Roth book? Or Mary Gaitskill's bondage tale "Secretary"? Does no one remember The Story of O? Madame Bovary? The biblical Song of Songs? Maybe it's the book's origin as a...
Philadelphia Daily News, March 18, 2012
...man (or woman) ever blushed at passages of Sabbath's Theater, or any other Philip Roth book? Or Mary Gaitskill's bondage tale "Secretary"? Does no one remember The Story of O? Madame Bovary? The biblical Song of Songs? Maybe it's the book's origin as a...
Velvetpark, March 15, 2012
...and Vanity Fair; creator of The Rumpus and director of the forthcoming feature film Cherry, starring James Franco. Mary Gaitskill: author of the National Book Award nominee Veronica, the novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin and the story collections Bad...
New York Times, March 9, 2012
...New editions of Ms. Ullmans two previous books, each with introductions by big names in literature and technology Mary Gaitskill, a fiction writer, and Jaron Lanier, a Berkeley-based Web prognosticator and the author of You Are Not a Gadget are being...
