'TWO GIRLS, FAT AND THIN'

By Mary Gaitskill

Best New American Voices 2009

By Natalie Danford, John Kulka, Mary Gaitskill

Critically acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Mary Gaitskill continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this year’s volume of Best New Amer...

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

By Daphne Carr, Mary Gaitskill, MARY GAITSKILL AND DAPHNE CARR, Mary Gaitskill, Guest Editor, Daphne Carr, Series Editor

Whether you count yourself a member of the hip-hop nation, bang your head yearly at Ozzfest, wear a cowboy hat, or dance to the top twenty, you're sure to find something to love in Da Capo Best Mus...

Somebody With A Little Hammer: Essays

By Mary Gaitskill, Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Author

Engaging, Unusual Essays Written Over The Last Two Decades, On Matters Literary, Social, Cultural, And Personal--from The Explosive Date Rape Debates Of The '90s To The Ubiquitous Political Adulter...

The Mare: A Novel

By Mary Gaitskill, Gaitskill, Mary

The Story Of A Dominican Girl, The Anglo Woman Who Introduces Her To Riding, And The Horse Who Changes Everything For Her. Velveteen Vargas Is Eleven Years Old, A Fresh Air Fund Kid From Brooklyn....

Somebody With A Little Hammer

By Mary Gaitskill

In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, and the...

BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO

By MARY, Mary Gaitskill, GAITSKILL, Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-

Featuring sex between friends, between enemies and between strangers, this is a collection of stories about people who want badly, without quite knowing what it is that they want or how to get it.

Because They Want To

By Mary Gaitskill

Bad Behaviour

By Mary Gaitskill, Gaitskill, Mary

Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection. (Or, more simply put, the angst of peopl...

Veronica: A Novel

By Mary Gaitskill, Mary Gaitskill, Mary Gaitskill

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris a...