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Bad Behavior: Stories by Mary Gaitskill, 2009-07-21

Because They Wanted to: Stories by Mary Gaitskill, 1998-02-27

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, 2006-07-18

Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill, 2009-03-24

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill, 1989-05-14

Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill, 1998-02-27

Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying by James Salter, Mary Gaitskill, et all 2009-06-16

Don't Cry (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mary Gaitskill, 2010-03-09

Because They Want To by Mary Gaitskill, 1998

Veronica (Spanish Edition) by Mary Gaitskill, 2007-01-30

Glimmer Train Stories, #64 by Cheri Johnson, Susan Perabo, et all 2007-08-01

An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Parts 1 & 2, Part 1: San Francisco Plays Itself by John Chiara, Mary Gaitskill, et all 2010-04-15

Best New American Voices 2009 by Mary Gaitskill, 2008-09-08

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More

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New York State Writers Institute - Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill photo credit Judy Axenson. Mary Gaitskill was born in 1954in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of a teacher and a social worker.
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/gaitskillmary.html

Extractions: M ary G aitskill 's fiction explores the meaning of sex in American life and most often, for Gaitskill's characters, sex represents a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to break out of social isolation. Sexual needs, practices and obsessions also reveal much about each character's defeated hopes, innermost fears, and buried sufferings. Because They Wanted To (1997), presents a number of unhappy, unhealthy and emotionally complicated sexual encounters. It is very much a sequel to an earlier story collection, Bad Behavior (1988, Vintage Contemporaries, ISBN 0-679-72327-7), which startled reviewers with its lucid examinations of sadomasochism, drug addiction, prostitution and other self-destructive behaviors. Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991), which explores the odd relationship between its title characters, one sexually reckless and promiscuous, and other socially isolated and abstinent. Though both women are survivors of sexual abuse in childhood, each plays out the consequences of that trauma in a radically different way. The Woman Who Knew Judo and Other Stories "[the novel] offers a potent picture of an America promoted by advertisinga place where physical looks, good or bad, are paramount, where adolescent hell is a life's central episode and one that lasts much longer than high school, but where, if luck holds, strength can be drawn from facing up to, and seeking to understand, early experiences of cruelty and fear."
Mary Gaitskill Books
Mary Gaitskill Books. Bad Behavior By Mary Gaitskill (paperback May 1989). BecauseThey Wanted To Stories By Mary Gaitskill (paperback - February 1998).
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Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill. Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION. The Smokers.The Evil Dead (Book Of The Dead Limited Edition). KPAX. Schoolhouse Rock!
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Extractions: Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION] The Smokers The Evil Dead (Book Of The Dead Limited Edition) K-PAX Schoolhouse Rock! - Multiplication Rock Schoolhouse Rock! - Grammar Rock Schoolhouse Rock! - America Rock Bad Behavior Because They Wanted to : Stories Two Girls, Fat and Thin Bleak House Bad Behaviour Open City Number Five : Change or Die Open City 7 : The Rubbed Away Girl Authors: G ArtistActorActress.com
Westerville Public Library /All Locations
Nick Gaitano.; Adult Services 1994 Mr. X / Nick Gaitano.; Adult Services 1995 Jaded/ Nick Gaitano.; Adult Services 1996 FICTION gaitskill mary Bad behavior
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Extractions: Youth Services Maximum warp / Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.; Adult Services, Youth Services Maximum warp / Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.; Adult Services, Youth Services Maximum warp / Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.; Adult Services, Youth Services Maximum warp / Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.; Adult Services, Youth Services FICTION GALBRAITH DOUGLAS
Fiction: Mary Gaitskill
Back to List mary gaitskill (b. 1954) LINKS Salon Online Literary Magazinehttp//www.salonmagazine.com/books/feature/1997/10/13gaitskill.html
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Extractions: MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Mary Gaitskill (b. 1954) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of a teacher and a social worker. She had what she describes as a difficult adolescence, running away from home at sixteen to become a stripper and spending time in mental institutions. She has said that this background is of limited relevance to my writing except for one thing: my experience of life as essentially unhappy and uncontrollable taught me to examine the way people, including myself, create survival systems and psychological "safe" places for themselves in unorthodox and sometimes apparently self-effacing ways. These inner worlds, although often unworkable and unattractive in social terms, can have a unique beauty and courage.
Interview With Mary Gaitskill
An interview with mary gaitskill by Alexander Laurence.
http://www.altx.com/interviews/mary.gaitskill.html

Extractions: (c) 1994 No, I don't. Which is one of the reasons that I liked being in Marin, because without a car, everything had to slow down to one mile an hour. You wouldn't think from my demeanor that I would require that, but I can be very amped up, even though I don't show it. Everything was slow like silly putty. That was good for me at the time. My internal state was so chaotic that I needed to be somewhere that wasn't going to reflect that back to me. Two Girls, Fat and Thin
Eye - Mary Gaitskill At IFOA - 10.22.98
Kevin Conolly interviews the author of "Bad Behavior" at the International Festival of Authors. View the writer's opinions about her readers.
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_10.22.98/art/gaitskill22.html

Extractions: eye - PREVIEW Reading, Oct. 23, 8:30pm.$19. Brigantine Room. Interview, Oct. 25, 4pm. $15. Lakeside Terrace. York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 973-3000. You might forgive Mary Gaitskill for being a little cautious. At 44, she has already experienced two kinds of personal notoriety. First, for being an intense, unblinking writer ( Bad Behavio r, her acclaimed 1988 book of stories, vaulted her to the forefront of young American writers), and second, for admitting that her disturbing fiction was partly derived from personal experience. Turns out Gaitskill had escaped from an abusive home outside suburban Detroit, worked in massage parlors and strip clubs (in Toronto, no less), and even dabbled in prostitution. In a 1994 Harper's article, Gaitskill also discussed incidents in her life outside her stint as a "sex worker" in which she was coerced into sex against her wishes.
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.
http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-11-97/tw_book1.html

Extractions: A New Collection Of Stories By Mary Gaitskill Is Long Overdue. By Piers Marchant Because They Wanted To MARY GAITSKILL'S first collection of stories in more than 10 years, Because They Wanted To , cements her reputation as a gifted writer unafraid of treading on dangerous and unsettling ground. Here, as in her first collection Bad Behavior , Gaitskill expertly mines her characters' twisted psyches, recording and revealing in small snatches the demographics of sex, power and intimacy. It's a brutal, wonderful collection, absorbing and terrifying in its unflinching look at our private lives. Gaitskill's writing is a marvel of interconnecting tensions, incorporating present anxiety with past affliction. In her best work, there's a seamless rendering of disturbed synergya catalogue of all the things that are out of place and gloomy in her characters' harrowing worlds. The title story focuses on the homeless girl Elise, who's fleeing from Seattle to the Canadian border to escape a peculiar, incestuous relationship with her brother. Desperate for money, she accepts a baby-sitting job from a woman who promises to pay her in time. Clumsy, awkward and completely incapable of handling small children, Elise spends a harrowing day with two small boys and a baby. As the day progresses, and the mother's return is delayed, Elise increasingly loses control over the children, until disaster seems imminent. Like a Diane Arbus photo in close detail, Gaitskill constantly cross-references tidy images with a bleak, chaotic overtonethe literary equivalent of a gray balloon in a bucket of blood. Elise's musings on the family placed in her care, for example, commingle maternal care with a disturbing air of misplaced sexuality: "She thought Robin must sleep in this bed with Penny, curled around her protectively as you would sleep with a kitten. Eric and Andy must sleep with them too. The bed was big, but still they would have to sleep close. She wondered if they wore pajamas. That would be uncomfortable in the heat, but it might be even more uncomfortable to touch sticky naked limbs...She wondered if Robin had a light, lacy gown to wear, or a nylon shortie."
Fiction Mary Gaitskill
Links and a short biography.
http://www.smpcollege.com/litlinks/fiction/gaitskill.htm
Interview With Mary Gaitskill
Interview with mary gaitskill. by Alexander Laurence (c) 1994 Q How long have youlived in San Francisco? mary gaitskill I've only been here for five months.
http://www.altx.com/int2/mary.gaitskill.html

Extractions: (c) 1994 No, I don't. Which is one of the reasons that I liked being in Marin, because without a car, everything had to slow down to one mile an hour. You wouldn't think from my demeanor that I would require that, but I can be very amped up, even though I don't show it. Everything was slow like silly putty. That was good for me at the time. My internal state was so chaotic that I needed to be somewhere that wasn't going to reflect that back to me. Two Girls, Fat and Thin
Poetry Center - Gaitskill, Mary - 09/02/93
Reader gaitskill, mary. Accession Number 1102. Date 09/02/93. Length33 minutes. Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity white.
http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/newcatalog/461.htm
Salon Arts & Entertainment | Philosophy Of The Bedroom
Philosophy of the bedroom mary gaitskill, Greil Marcus, David Gates, and Lisa Zeidner weigh in on Eyes Wide Shut .
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/1999/07/23/marcus/

Extractions: By Mary Gaitskill Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" is built on the idea that sex is a dark, chaotic, destructive force. This is a poor foundation, though not because the idea is wrong exactly; sex can be all of the above. But sex is too primary, too deep and too big for the idea; what makes it most destructive and violent is part of what makes it creative and intensely loving. How these opposed qualities interact in each of us is complicated and tender and strange it goes all the way down to the bottom of us, the part we can't see into. It's easy to be scared of what you can't see, but it's a little kid who thinks that because he's afraid of the dark, the dark is therefore evil. "Eyes Wide Shut" has one strong early scene: A wife tells her husband of a moment some years past when a handsome young man simply glanced at her, and she was so inflamed that she would've thrown away her marriage for one night with him had the opportunity been there. That a complete stranger could arouse such a forceful primary response in her is scary for the characters and poignant for the viewer, poignant because it depicts how the underlayer of her unconscious what we can't see is at odds with the rational top layer of her life, creating an incongruity that might be funny or awful or both. At that point the movie is involving; we recognize the dilemma and want to see how it will play out.
Mary Gaitskill Discussion
Bad Behavior by gaitskill, mary Released 10/2002. BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO by gaitskill,mary Released 02/1998. Bad Behavior by gaitskill, mary Released 06/1988.
http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/mary gaitskill.html
Personal Best: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
An article by mary gaitskill.
http://www.salon.com/weekly/hugo960930.html

Extractions: Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving i picked up this book on impulse during an odd pocket of time about seven years ago. I was living alone in a very isolated area and I was having insomnia so severe that I was only sleeping one to three hours a night. On top of that, when I did sleep, I had intense nightmares, all on the theme of brutish men viciously killing and/or raping women me for example. The dreams were terrifying, but they were also bewildering; while they could be explained by real-life fears, I felt they were more about me than anything external, and because I very much wanted to understand them, I thought a lot about them. Solitude, sleep deprivation, nightmares and self-examination are a loopy combination, and I spent my many waking hours moving in and out of an half-dream state in which the violent images from my subconscious loomed about me, leering ridiculously as I nodded off in the grocery store checkout line.
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Extractions: Search through: Entire site Gaitskill, Mary DIRECTORY Entertainment Literature Authors ... 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. Fiction: Mary Gaitskill - Links and a short biography. 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. - The author of "Bad Behavior" picks five tales of guys at the end of their ropes.
Salon | Satan Goes To Harvard
Salon Magazine mary gaitskill, melanie thernstrom, sinedu tadesse, trangho, ethiopia, vietnam, harvard, murder, suicide, evil, mental illness.
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1997/10/13gaitskill.html

Extractions: murder of her college roommate? BY MARY GAITSKILL on May 28, 1995, a murder was committed at Harvard University: Sinedu Tadesse, a 20-year-old Ethiopian scholarship student, stabbed her roommate Trang Ho, a gifted 20-year-old Vietnamese immigrant also on a scholarship. More precisely, Tadesse stabbed Ho 45 times with a hunting knife she had bought expressly for that purpose while Ho lay sleeping in bed. Tadesse then hung herself with a noose she had prepared in advance. The crime was stunning not only because it was savage, but because, as a Harvard official commented at the time, "there (was) no apparent reason." All the ensuing media coverage, and all the speeches and meetings seemed to make the event more mysterious, not less.
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Salon | Because They Wanted To
An excerpt from 'Because They Wanted To' by mary gaitskill, a Salon Book Awardswinner. Because They Wanted To By mary gaitskill Simon Schuster.
http://www.salon.com/special/1998/bookawards/19sba_gaitskill.html

Extractions: home page because they wanted to BY MARY GAITSKILL FICTION SIMON AND SHUSTER 254 PAGES "Tiny, Smiling Daddy" H e lay in his reclining chair, barely awake enough to feel the dream moving just under his thoughts. It felt like one of those pure, beautiful dreams in which he was young again, and filled with the realization that the friends who had died, or gone away, or decided that they didn't like him anymore, had really been there all along, loving him. A piece of dream flickered, and he made out the lips and cheekbones of a tender woman, smiling as she leaned toward him. The phone rang, and the sound rippled through his pliant wakefulness, into the pending dream. But his wife had turned the answering machine up too loud again, and it attacked him with a garbled, furred roar that turned into the voice of his friend Norm.
NABOKOV
By mary gaitskill.
http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/nabokov.html

Extractions: By MARY GAITSKILL I n an interview, Vladimir Nabokov was once asked to comment on the popular authorial truism that one's fictional characters can sometimes "take over" and dictate to the author the course of a story. In his supercilious dismissal of this whimsical idea, Nabokov described his characters as "galley slaves" a comment exuding the playful, haughty spirit that drove (and still drives) some critics nuts. Such critics condemn Nabokov's authorial voice as elitist, inhuman and finally cruel. And that is an assessment his "slaves" might well agree with, subjected as they were to excruciating and ridiculous fates delineated in exquisite language and sparkling, albeit twisted, comic narratives. To a reader with a defensive turn of mind who is waiting to be told how to live or to be shown the Truth in a piece of fiction, the ruthless and rigorous complexity of Nabokov's work may seem cruel simply because it does not offer either of these services. Some readers apparently interpret the very beauty of his prose as cruel and there is a hyper-refinement, an airy, curiously high-pitched quality to its beauty that can feel cruel simply because it throws the whole beastly, mundane, plodding corporeality of human beings into such grotesque relief. Through this Apollonian oeuvre there frolic countless tiny nymphets most famously, Lolita Haze, with her dim eyes and big, bright mouth, her narrow-shouldered, hipless, insouciant grace. And therein also stump Mrs. Haze and her 30-ish sisters, with their gross emotional needs, their dumpy legs, their ghastly hips and boobs, the unbeautiful human personified with a fastidious shudder.
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