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Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954 in Lexington, Kentucky) 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 The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). She married writer Peter Trachtenberg in 2001. As of 2005, she lived in New York City; Gaitskill has previously lived in Toronto, San Francisco, and Marin County, CA, as well as attending the University of Michigan where she earned her B.A.
Gaitskill made her book debut in 1988 with the short-story collection Bad Behavior, having been trying to publish her work since the age of 23. Her fiction typically is about female characters dealing with their own inner conflicts, and her subject matter matter-of-factly includes many "taboo" subjects such as prostitution, addiction, and sado-masochism. Gaitskill says that she herself had worked as a stripper and call girl. She showed similar candor discussing her being raped in her essay "On Not Being a Victim" for Harper's.
The film Secretary (2002) is based on the short story of the same name in Bad Behavior, although the two have little in common. She characterized the film as "the Pretty Woman version, heavy on the charm (and a little too nice)," but observed that the "bottom line is that if film adaptation is made you get some money and exposure, and people can make up their minds from there."
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"Sometimes when you go to what seems to be the opposite of your point of view, a whole is created." -Mary Gaitskill
Tim_Colwell (Tim Colwell) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:56:33 -0000
"Sometimes when you go to what seems to be the opposite of your point of view, a whole is created." -Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill on Roxy Music: http://bit.ly/392KPX
Ryeberg (RyebergCuratedVideo) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:53:18 -0000
Mary Gaitskill on Roxy Music: http://bit.ly/392KPX
Nice article on Mary 'icy insight into life's little cruelties' Gaitskill from four years ago: http://bit.ly/16JWvZ
icfrankish (Mouse) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:43:31 -0000
Nice article on Mary 'icy insight into life's little cruelties' Gaitskill from four years ago: http://bit.ly/16JWvZ
Sounds like me! RT @talentdevelop I can be very amped up, even though I don't show it. #writer Mary Gaitskill
NicoleJButler (NicoleJButler) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:14:32 -0000
Sounds like me! RT @talentdevelop I can be very amped up, even though I don't show it. #writer Mary Gaitskill
I can be very amped up, even though I don't show it. #writer Mary Gaitskill http://talentdevelop.com/intensities2.html
talentdevelop (Douglas Eby) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:56:04 -0000
I can be very amped up, even though I don't show it. #writer Mary Gaitskill http://talentdevelop.com/intensities2.html
I think it's going to be Mary Gaitskill's Veronica. For a little uplift.
RebeccaLH1 (Rebecca) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:24:30 -0000
I think it's going to be Mary Gaitskill's Veronica. For a little uplift.
Books: Beautiful Brooding (Tucson Weekly . 08-11-97) - Mary Gaitskill is at it again -- mining those twisted psyches and revealing the demographics of sex, power and intimacy -- in her first collection of short stories in more than a decade.
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Interview with Mary Gaitskill - An interview with Mary Gaitskill by Alexander Laurence.
My inspiration: Vladimir Nabobov - By Mary Gaitskill.
Personal Best: The Hunchback of Notre Dame - An article by Mary Gaitskill.
Salon Books | Men at extremes - The author of Bad Behavior picks five tales of guys at the end of their ropes.
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