Tapestry | Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill

The Other Place

Featured in The New Yorker

My son, Douglas, loves to play with toy guns. He is thirteen. He loves video games in which people get killed.


Mirrorball

Featured in Knopf-Doubleday

He took her soul—though, being a secular-minded person, he didn’t think of it that way


The Devil's Treasure

Featured in Electric Literature

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Something Better Than This

Featured in Fictionaut

It's one of those raw, wrung out Yonge Street Saturday mornings. The smog-gray sky is just congealing into blue over the buildings and concrete.

What Men Talk About When They Talk About Mary Gaitskill

Featured in The Rumpus

I hate it when men talk about Mary Gaitskill. I call for a permanent moratorium on men gassily discoursing on Mary Gaitskill.


Mary Gaitskill [interview]

Featured in Bomb Magazine

Mary Gaitskill’s collection of short stories, Bad Behavior, has a curious history


NY Times

Featured in The New York Times

He lay in his reclining chair, barely awake enough to feel the dream moving just under his thoughts.


Wish Fulfillment

Featured in Fifty-Two Stories

One night Mary, a little girl with sisters and parents who loved her, woke in a dark forest.


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