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Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill
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.


Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction

“Politics is how we fight it out on the ground.”
August 19, 2022  By Mary Gaitskill
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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
October 22, 2021  By Mary Gaitskill
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Mary Gaitskill on Love, Violence, and Submission in Agaat

A Novel of Apartheid-Era South Africa
December 11, 2020  By Mary Gaitskill
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Mary Gaitskill’s Classic Essay on John McCain

From the 2008 Presidential Campaign
July 28, 2017  By Mary Gaitskill
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