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Name: Mary Gaitskill
Birth Date: November 11, 1954
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Mary Gaitskill
5,238 words, approx. 18 pages
Mary Gaitskill's range is limited, but her work is nevertheless important, as she deals with subjects that are frequently ignored in serious American fiction. Her fundamental theme is relational connection and maneuvering between "bohemian" single...


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Mary Gaitskill (1954) is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Sourced She brightened. "Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian . I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want...


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Mary Gaitskill Information
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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 2006), and The O....


News and Journals
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The Stranger
Terrible Beauty; Mary Gaitskill on Death and Glamour
10/20/2005: 696 words, approx. 2 pages
MARY GAITSKILL'S 1988 short-story collection Bad Behavior had the effect of a slap in the face. I was 17 at the time and I was reading anything tagged transgressive that I could get my hands on. That meant mostly hard, weird novels by men....
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Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Trauma and sadomasochistic narrative: Mary Gaitskill's "The Dentist".(Critical Essay)
06/01/2005: 7,554 words, approx. 25 pages
This essay applies trauma theory and relational psychoanalysis to a close reading of Mary Gaitskill's short story "The Dentist." It argues that the sadomasochistic relationship central to this story, and to much of Gaitskill's fiction, is rooted in trauma and can be illuminated...
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Mad Lit: Jennifer Belle
6/6/2007: 733 words, approx. 2 pages
“There are only so many things you can count on in this world,” declares Rebekah Kettle, the protagonist of Jennifer Belle’s third novel, Little Stalker. “I know that every winter I can find a great vintage coat and that every spring it will fall apart....
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The New York Observer
And They\'d5re at the Gate: Didion, Coetzee, Gaitskill in the Running
9/25/2005: 524 words, approx. 2 pages
If book publishing is a horse race, this fall we’re being treated to a Nobel trifecta. In September, we have Slow Man (Viking), a bag of tricks from the newest laureate, J.M. Coetzee (b. 1940); in October, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Knopf), a typically...
 


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