Mary Gaitskill
Author · 20 books
Mary Gaitskill 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. Henry Prize Stories (1998). She married writer Peter Trachtenberg in 2001. As of 2005, she lived in New York City; Gaitskill has previously lived in Toronto, San Francisco, and Marin County, CA, as well as attending the University of Michigan where she earned her B.A. and won a Hopwood Award. Gaitskill has recounted (in her essay "Revelation") becoming a born-again Christian at age 21 but lapsing after six months.
Books
Lost Cat
2014
Don't Cry
2009
The Other Place
2011
Because They Wanted To
1997
The Devil's Treasure
2012
Isso é prazer
+ A dificuldade de seguir as regras
2019
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006
The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More
2006
Acceptance Journey
2018
On Not Being a Victim
2025
The Mare
2015
This Is Pleasure
2019
Bad Behavior
1988
Today I'm Yours
2015
Somebody with a Little Hammer
Essays
2017
Oppositions
Selected Essays
2021
The Little Boy
2016
Best American Erotica, Volume 12, The
2016
Two Girls, Fat and Thin
1991
Bear Witness
2020
Veronica
2005
