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Jan 12, 2023 · Gaitskill writes about the ridiculous and poetic ambition of Norman Mailer, about the socio-sexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace, and, in the deceptively titled 'Lost Cat,' about how power and race can warp the most innocent and intimate of relationships.
Apr 4, 2017 · Whether she’s writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her subjects deftly and aphoristically and moves beyond them to locate the deep currents of longing, ambition, perversity, and loneliness in the American unconscious.
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- Mary Gaitskill
Apr 4, 2017 · In the title essay, fiction writer Gaitskill (The Mare, 2016, etc.) recalls teaching Chekhov’s short story “Gooseberries” to an English class at Syracuse University. Living in an apartment in a run-down section of the city, struck by the contrast between her poor neighbors and affluent students, she thought about reading a passage from ...
- Mary Gaitskill
Somebody with a Little Hammer. : "Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal--from the explosive date rape debates of...
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- Mary Gaitskill
- Pantheon Books, 2017
Apr 1, 2017 · LIT. COPY ISBN. Novelist and short story writer Gaitskill's (The Mare, Veronica, and others) first collection of essays spans the years 1994–2016. All of the pieces were previously published in magazines (e.g., Book Forum, Village Voice) or as book introductions (Charles Dickens's Bleak House).
May 2, 2017 · Gaitskill’s writing is surprisingly tender but always on point and never misses a beat.
Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal - from the explosive date-rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion.
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