Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To(nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don't Cry, the novels The Mare, Veronica(nominated for the National Book Award), and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and a collection of essays, Somebody With A Little Hammer. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Artforum, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
Razor-sharp brilliance -- D. M. Thomas Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you don't expect it, these stories are a pleasure to read -- Michiko Kakutani Stubbornly original, with a sort of rhythm and fine moments that flatten you out when you don't expect it, these stories are a pleasure to read -- Alice Munro