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Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993, 2006, 2012, 2020), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998, 2008).
Aug 14, 2022 · Mary Gaitskill is a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer celebrated by readers and critics (this one included) for her uncompromising acuity and clear-eyed...
Nov 2, 2015 · Mary Gaitskill and the Life Unseen In her new novel, the author — known for depicting violent sex and lonely people — delves into the most frightening subject of all: real connection. Mary ...
Mar 22, 2023 · From her groundbreaking 1988 collection Bad Behavior, through several novels, and up to “ Minority Report ,” a story published this week in the New Yorker, Mary Gaitskill has plumbed the...
Mar 20, 2023 · Mary Gaitskill revisits and expands on her 1988 story “Secretary” in her new fiction: “I still don’t know why I did what the lawyer said, or why I didn’t stand up and leave.”
Mary Gaitskill is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993 and 2006), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). She married writer Peter Trachtenberg in 2001.
Nov 6, 2020 · Mary Gaitskill on disorderly love in a disorderly world. The author talks about the complicated relationships between her characters and the vulnerability of loss. Much of Gaitskill’s...
Mar 20, 2023 · Deborah Treisman interviews the author Mary Gaitskill about “Minority Report,” her story from the March 27, 2023, issue of The New Yorker.
Mar 9, 2018 · Known for pushing sexual boundaries, American writer Mary Gaitskill achieved literary notoriety with her edgy first book of stories, Bad Behavior.
Oct 22, 2021 · Mary Gaitskill on Borrowing From Real Life in Writing (and the Dreams That Guided Her) How the Author of Veronica Tries to Honor the World. By Mary Gaitskill. October 22, 2021.
May 9, 2017 · My guest, Mary Gaitskill, first became known for her 1988 collection of short stories "Bad Behavior" about people whose relationships and sexual relationships were outside of what was defined as...
Nov 25, 2015 · The novel tells the story of what happens when Velveteen Vargas, an 11-year-old Dominican girl living in Brooklyn with her mother and brother, is sent by the Fresh Air...
Nov 11, 2021 · Gaitskill, who was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1954, views today’s attitudes towards sexual consent as being “almost the opposite of how I was brought up”. Gaining verbal consent for all sexual activity is now understood as the moral standard for intimate encounters.
Jul 3, 2023 · A memoir by Mary Gaitskill: “The next thing I recall is that a large, purposeful woman was suddenly dancing at me, very close and very angry.”
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. It’s a place of refuge—as orderly and elegant as she is.
Aug 19, 2022 · Mary Gaitskill is the author of Bad Behavior, Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Because They Wanted To, Veronica, Don't Cry, The Mare, Somebody with a Little Hammer, and This Is Pleasure. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories .
Nov 19, 2015 · Mary Gaitskill: By the Book. Nov. 19, 2015. Share full article. Mary Gaitskill Illustration by Jillian Tamaki. The author, most recently, of “The Mare” says Nabokov’s witty “Letters to Véra”...
Jul 8, 2019 · Mary Gaitskill, the author of the novella “This is Pleasure,” discusses workplace harassment, the impact of #MeToo, and how she expects readers to respond to her story.
Feb 28, 2014 · The Six Motives of Creativity: Mary Gaitskill on Why Writers Write – The Marginalian. By Maria Popova. Why do writers — great writers — write? George Orwell attributed it to four universal motives. Joan Didion saw it as access to her own mind. For David Foster Wallace, it was about fun.
Dec 31, 2023 · Notes from outside the consternation machine. Click to read Out of It, by Mary Gaitskill, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels “Two Girls, Fat and Thin,” “Veronica,” and “The Mare.” She has also written the story collections “Bad Behavior,” “Because...
Feb 13, 2017 · This is Mary Gaitskill: noticing behaviors, filing them away, articulating them with perfect clarity. It’s Donald Trump’s first week in office. In the midst of marching with millions of others worldwide, calling elected representatives, fuming on Twitter, and the occasional bout of complete despair, I’m working.
Feb 7, 2011 · In “The Other Place,” the fiction entry in this week’s issue of the magazine, Mary Gaitskill offers the story of a man’s obsession with violence. We spoke by email about some of the themes ...
