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Gaitskill attempted to find a publisher for four years before her first book, the short story collection Bad Behavior, was published in 1988.
Oct 22, 2021 · October 22, 2021. When Two Girls was published, a reporter from the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky called my father and asked him about his feelings regarding what I’d written, specifically what I’d written about the father who raped his daughter.
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Apr 3, 2017 · NAKADATE: How did you first get published? And how did it change things for you? GAITSKILL: Oh, it changed things really radically. Well, I started trying to sell the stories myself to magazines. I would send them out, and every day, I would get tons of rejections. My mailbox would be filled with rejections. I got an agent finally.
Nov 11, 2021 · Gaitskill, who wore a light grey jumper, did not choose the title of her latest book, Oppositions, a collection of essays first published in the US in 2017 as Somebody with a Little Hammer. But she sees why her publisher thought it appropriate.
Her most recent book is the hybrid work The Devil’s Treasure (ZE Books, 2021), which creates a collage out of her previous works, connected by the thread of a new short story. In 2019, she published the widely-acclaimed This is Pleasure (Pantheon), which The Guardian praised as “formidable.”.
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 vivisection of our mottled human...
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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.
