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Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
I am beat-down tired after a really long day at work. Why is so hard to transition back into the race after a gorgeously productive summer??? But here are some links before I throw in the towel. When looking for information on Mary Gaitskill for my grad class, I found this treasre trove of author-audio! Best American Poetry gives a close reading of the undergraduate verse of one Barack Obama. Salt...
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Languagehat.com (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Frequent commenter Jim Salant sent me a link a while back to a reading by Mary Gaitskill of Vladimir Nabokov's Symbols and Signs (as they call it) and a discussion with The New Yorker 's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman (pronounced TREECE-man). Here 's a direct link to the mp3 file, in case you want to download it rather than playing it from the linked page, and here 's the story itself, one of...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
I delayed renewing my New Yorker subscription & missed Mary Gaitskill’s Don’t Cry, which a friend calls “one of the most achingly beautiful stories I’ve ever read.”
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Front Porch Journal posts a video clip of Mary Gaitskill reading from work-in-progress at the Katherine Anne Porter House. A fitting locale, I think; the foxy, mercurial, ever-prevaricating Texan author would make an interesting subject for Gaitskill if she ever turned her hand to biography. (Via Jacket Copy.) Previously the Texas State literary magazine has featured [...]
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Video from the 150th Anniversary celebration of Harper's Magazine. Introductory remarks by Robert Polito, John R. MacArthur, and Lewis H. Lapham. Remarks by Annie Dillard, Readings by David Foster Wallace, Mary Gaitskill, Darcy Frey, George Plimpton, Fenton Johnson, George Saunders, Allan Gurganus, Richard Rodriguez, Pico Iyer, Seymour Hersh, and Tom Wolfe. Above: George Saunders reads from "The 400-pound...
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NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Second Annual Conversations and Connections April 5, 2008 Washington, DC Keynote: Author Mary Gaitskill Get the connections and information you need to take your writing — and publishing —to the next level. Panelists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, making connections, using the web, marketing, and everything in between. Over 30 literary magazines represented. $45
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This Girl Called Automatic Win (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
I make a lot of recommendations on this blog: melted cheese, Stephen Dunn, honesty, solitude, bi/homosexuality, Tegan & Sara, dog-purses like Tinkerbell, last-fm, cities, solitude, Mary Gaitskill, Savage Inequalities (the book, not the experience), abbreviated words, making out, laughter, jokes, ethical consumerism, apple products, auto-apparel. I know whereof I speak -- I've enjoyed melted
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/15/2007
Nicholas Blincoe reviews Veronica by Mary Gaitskill.
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Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 12/08/2007
By Charlotte Stretch. Mary Gaitskill, Veronica , Serpent's Tail ed., 2007 Mary Gaitskill is not known for her reticence. Her writing debut in 1989, a collection of short stories nonchalantly titled Bad Behaviour , was a frank study of date rape, sadomasochism and kinky sex. Since then she has forged a reputation for fresh, edgy writing that thrills and outrages the reader in equal measure. Veronica...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
Two girls, beautiful and ugly, meet in an office in Eighties New York. Alison is a young model, seduced and abandoned by the fashion industry. Veronica is a fortysomething proof-reader with a fractious personality and an idiosyncratic blend of elegance and bad taste. "In her plaid suit, ruffled blouse and bow tie, she was like a human cuckoo-clock." She also has Aids. What Alison wonders, attracts...
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/08/2007
Mary Gaitskill's finely wrought tale of the unlikely friendship between Alison, a model, and an eccentric proofreader called Veronica has a deadly, elegant grace.
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The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 11/01/2007
Next book in my Daily Book Excerpt - on my adult fiction shelves: Veronica - - by Mary Gaitskill. Veronica is Gaitskill's latest book, a novel. As is probably clear by now, Mary Gaitskill is one of my favorite writers...
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11/01/2007
Veronica Mary Gaitskill Serpent's Tail, 272pp, £10.99
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The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 10/31/2007
Next book in my Daily Book Excerpt - on my adult fiction shelves: Because They Wanted to - - by Mary Gaitskill. This excerpt is from the last four-part story in the book (I could read a novel about this...
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The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 10/22/2007
Next book in my Daily Book Excerpt - on my adult fiction shelves: Because They Wanted to - - by Mary Gaitskill. This excerpt is from the story 'Comfort'. A typically bitchy ironic title from Gaitskill - because the characters...
