The Other Place
2011
First Published
3.89
Average Rating
11
Number of Pages
Free online fiction from the New Yorker. Short story about the father of a thirteen-year-old boy who recalls the violent fantasies he had when he was younger…
Avg Rating
3.89
Number of Ratings
205
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author
Mary Gaitskill
Author · 25 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.
