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Apr 4, 2017 · Mary Gaitskill’s first book of nonfiction — a cool and formidable collection of essays, reviews and other matter — takes its title from a sentence in Anton Chekhov’s short story “Gooseberries.”
- Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’
In one of Gaitskill’s most famous stories, “Secretary,”...
- Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’
May 5, 2020 · A skillful composer of short stories and several novels, Gaitskill found herself breaking into public life with her collection Bad Behavior, a book acutely focused on loneliness and the...
Nov 25, 2015 · In one of Gaitskill’s most famous stories, “Secretary,” which later became a film of the same name, an alienated young woman is sexually used by her boss, but finds the encounter has an array of...
Nov 19, 2015 · The books I remember making the most powerful impressions on me are: “Peter Pan” (Barrie); “A Wrinkle in Time” (L’Engle); “The Chronicles of Narnia” (Lewis); “Charlotte’s Web ...
Mary Gaitskill, The Art of Fiction No. 257. Interviewed by Lidija Haas. Issue 243, Spring 2023. New York, ca. 1988. Courtesy of Mary Gaitskill. Mary Gaitskill lives in a white two-story brick house with dormer windows and a front door painted pale lilac, set back from a quiet avenue in a small town just across the bridge from Hudson, New York.
Nov 4, 2019 · Gaitskill’s book arrives as some female writers have begun to open the possibility of a #MeToo course correction — one that allows for a more nuanced look at sexual trespasses.
Nov 10, 2015 · In the twilight of a year rich with books about race in America, Mary Gaitskill has just published a novel about the knee-smashing effects of minority poverty and the corrosive tonic of liberal...
