Everyone weathered the pandemic in their own way. Out of the isolation, literary icon Mary Gaitskill forged a reimagining of her own work by stitching together fragments of previously published pieces ...

A few seasons back on Showtime’s recently-wrapped lesbian soap opera The L Word, one of the main characters, an aspiring fiction writer named Jenny Schecter, decided to take some inspiration from Mary ...

Considered superficially, Mary Gaitskill’s third novel The Mare is a Hollywood tearjerker: An abused girl falls in love with an abused horse. Make that an abused black girl from Crown Heights and an ...

Mary Gaitskill first became known in the 1980s for her defiantly honest and perverse short stories, where, in charged sentences, she depicted the shifting power balances of damaging relationships and ...

Summer and fall walked into a campus of artist-renovated military buildings to read from their latest works and to talk about the weather. One of the seasons, Mary Gaitskill of New York, is spending ...

Ever since her explosive debut Bad Behaviour, Gaitskill has dealt with pain and intimacy, sex and power. She explains why it was time to address #MeToo Mary Gaitskill’s fiction is often called cold, ...

The Mare (Serpent’s Tail, July) is only the third novel from US author Mary Gaitskill in a career that began back in 1988 with the publication of Bad Behaviour (Sceptre), a collection of short stories ...

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 ...

In the twilight of a year rich with books about race in America, Mary Gaitskill has just published a novel about the knee-smashing effects of minority poverty and the corrosive tonic of liberal guilt.

The dark and twisty hit novel “Gone Girl” is taken to task by the best practitioner of dark literary arts, Mary Gaitskill, in this fall’s Bookforum-- puzzlingly, about 15 months after the book’s ...