1. New York State Writers Institute - Mary Gaitskill Mary Gaitskill photo credit Judy Axenson. Mary Gaitskill was born in 1954in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of a teacher and a social worker. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/gaitskillmary.html

October 9, 2001 (Tuesday) with Elizabeth Benedict 4:00 Joint Seminar, HU 354 8:00 p.m. Joint Reading Recital Hall, PAC UAlbany's Uptown Campus M ary G aitskill photo credit: Judy Axenson M ary G aitskill 's fiction explores the meaning of sex in American life and most often, for Gaitskill's characters, sex represents a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to break out of social isolation. Sexual needs, practices and obsessions also reveal much about each character's defeated hopes, innermost fears, and buried sufferings. Because They Wanted To (1997), presents a number of unhappy, unhealthy and emotionally complicated sexual encounters. It is very much a sequel to an earlier story collection, Bad Behavior (1988, Vintage Contemporaries, ISBN 0-679-72327-7), which startled reviewers with its lucid examinations of sadomasochism, drug addiction, prostitution and other self-destructive behaviors. Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991), which explores the odd relationship between its title characters, one sexually reckless and promiscuous, and other socially isolated and abstinent. Though both women are survivors of sexual abuse in childhood, each plays out the consequences of that trauma in a radically different way. The Woman Who Knew Judo and Other Stories "[the novel] offers a potent picture of an America promoted by advertisinga place where physical looks, good or bad, are paramount, where adolescent hell is a life's central episode and one that lasts much longer than high school, but where, if luck holds, strength can be drawn from facing up to, and seeking to understand, early experiences of cruelty and fear."

2. Mary Gaitskill Books Mary Gaitskill Books. Bad Behavior By Mary Gaitskill (paperback May 1989). BecauseThey Wanted To Stories By Mary Gaitskill (paperback - February 1998). http://www.american-webshop.com/Mary-Gaitskill

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AUTHOR TITLE SUBJECT GENRE KEYWORD OCLC NO ISBN CALL NO Youth Services Adult Services Media Services Internet Site Entire Collection Nearby CALL NOS are: Prev Next Save Format Year FICTION GAITANO NICK Special victims : a novel / Nick Gaitano.; Adult Services Mr. X / Nick Gaitano.; Adult Services Jaded / Nick Gaitano.; Adult Services FICTION GAITSKILL MARY Bad behavior / Mary Gaitskill.; Adult Services Two girls, fat and thin : a novel / Mary Gaitskill.; Adult Services Because they wanted to : stories / Mary Gaitskill.; Adult Services FICTION GALANTER DAVE Youth Services Maximum warp / Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.; Adult Services, Youth Services Maximum warp / Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.; Adult Services, Youth Services Maximum warp / Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.; Adult Services, Youth Services Maximum warp / Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.; Adult Services, Youth Services FICTION GALBRAITH DOUGLAS The rising sun : being a true account of the voyage of the great ship of that name, the author's adventures in the wastes of the New World, and his attendance at the crimes and betrayals that have so lately aggrieved these islands / Douglas Galbraith.; Adult Services FICTION GALBRAITH JOHN A tenured professor / John Kenneth Galbraith.;

5. Fiction: Mary Gaitskill Back to List mary gaitskill (b. 1954) LINKS Salon Online Literary Magazinehttp//www.salonmagazine.com/books/feature/1997/10/13gaitskill.html http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/gaitskill.htm

MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Mary Gaitskill (b. 1954) LINKS Salon: Online Literary Magazine http://www.salonmagazine.com/books/feature/1997/10/13gaitskill.html Mary Gaitskill reviews Halfway Heaven by Melanie Thernstrom and argues at length the uselessness of a mental illness diagnosis for the purposes of explaining murder. Conjunctions http://conjunctions.com/av.htm Download RealAudio 5.0 in order to listen to Gaitskill read from her short story collection, Because They Wanted To BIOGRAPHY Mary Gaitskill (b. 1954) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of a teacher and a social worker. She had what she describes as a difficult adolescence, running away from home at sixteen to become a stripper and spending time in mental institutions. She has said that this background is of limited relevance to my writing except for one thing: my experience of life as essentially unhappy and uncontrollable taught me to examine the way people, including myself, create survival systems and psychological "safe" places for themselves in unorthodox and sometimes apparently self-effacing ways. These inner worlds, although often unworkable and unattractive in social terms, can have a unique beauty and courage.

6. Interview With Mary Gaitskill An interview with mary gaitskill by Alexander Laurence. http://www.altx.com/interviews/mary.gaitskill.html

Interview with Mary Gaitskill by Alexander Laurence (c) 1994 Q How long have you lived in San Francisco? Mary Gaitskill I've only been here for five months. I went back and forth between Marin County and New York City for a while. Then I ran out of money, so I don't have my place in New York anymore. I moved to San Francisco because I started to go nuts in Marin. I realize that Marin County repels many people, but I didn't feel that way because I wanted to live somewhere that was very quiet and didn't demand anything of me. It's been hard for me to get connected to San Francisco. I'm not sure why. A lot of my life here has been very internal, but that's always been true of me. Q You sound like you don't drive? MG No, I don't. Which is one of the reasons that I liked being in Marin, because without a car, everything had to slow down to one mile an hour. You wouldn't think from my demeanor that I would require that, but I can be very amped up, even though I don't show it. Everything was slow like silly putty. That was good for me at the time. My internal state was so chaotic that I needed to be somewhere that wasn't going to reflect that back to me. Two Girls, Fat and Thin

7. Eye - Mary Gaitskill At IFOA - 10.22.98 Kevin Conolly interviews the author of "Bad Behavior" at the International Festival of Authors. View the writer's opinions about her readers. http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_10.22.98/art/gaitskill22.html

CONTENTS Latest issue This issue LISTINGS Movie showtimes Music listings Theatre Dance ... Etc. COLUMNS Love Bites Feelings Pink Panther Sign Language ... ABOUT EYE eye - The edge of innocence Mary Gaitskill and the line between life and fiction PREVIEW MARY GAITSKILL at the International Festival of Authors Reading, Oct. 23, 8:30pm.$19. Brigantine Room. Interview, Oct. 25, 4pm. $15. Lakeside Terrace. York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 973-3000. BY KEVIN CONNOLLY You might forgive Mary Gaitskill for being a little cautious. At 44, she has already experienced two kinds of personal notoriety. First, for being an intense, unblinking writer ( Bad Behavio r, her acclaimed 1988 book of stories, vaulted her to the forefront of young American writers), and second, for admitting that her disturbing fiction was partly derived from personal experience. Turns out Gaitskill had escaped from an abusive home outside suburban Detroit, worked in massage parlors and strip clubs (in Toronto, no less), and even dabbled in prostitution. In a 1994 Harper's article, Gaitskill also discussed incidents in her life outside her stint as a "sex worker" in which she was coerced into sex against her wishes.

8. Books: Beautiful Brooding (Tucson Weekly . 08-11-97) mary gaitskill is at it again mining those twisted psyches and revealing the demographics of sex, power and intimacy in her first collection of short stories in more than a decade. http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-11-97/tw_book1.html

Beautiful Brooding A New Collection Of Stories By Mary Gaitskill Is Long Overdue. By Piers Marchant Because They Wanted To MARY GAITSKILL'S first collection of stories in more than 10 years, Because They Wanted To , cements her reputation as a gifted writer unafraid of treading on dangerous and unsettling ground. Here, as in her first collection Bad Behavior , Gaitskill expertly mines her characters' twisted psyches, recording and revealing in small snatches the demographics of sex, power and intimacy. It's a brutal, wonderful collection, absorbing and terrifying in its unflinching look at our private lives. Gaitskill's writing is a marvel of interconnecting tensions, incorporating present anxiety with past affliction. In her best work, there's a seamless rendering of disturbed synergya catalogue of all the things that are out of place and gloomy in her characters' harrowing worlds. The title story focuses on the homeless girl Elise, who's fleeing from Seattle to the Canadian border to escape a peculiar, incestuous relationship with her brother. Desperate for money, she accepts a baby-sitting job from a woman who promises to pay her in time. Clumsy, awkward and completely incapable of handling small children, Elise spends a harrowing day with two small boys and a baby. As the day progresses, and the mother's return is delayed, Elise increasingly loses control over the children, until disaster seems imminent. Like a Diane Arbus photo in close detail, Gaitskill constantly cross-references tidy images with a bleak, chaotic overtonethe literary equivalent of a gray balloon in a bucket of blood. Elise's musings on the family placed in her care, for example, commingle maternal care with a disturbing air of misplaced sexuality: "She thought Robin must sleep in this bed with Penny, curled around her protectively as you would sleep with a kitten. Eric and Andy must sleep with them too. The bed was big, but still they would have to sleep close. She wondered if they wore pajamas. That would be uncomfortable in the heat, but it might be even more uncomfortable to touch sticky naked limbs...She wondered if Robin had a light, lacy gown to wear, or a nylon shortie."

9. Fiction Mary Gaitskill Links and a short biography. http://www.smpcollege.com/litlinks/fiction/gaitskill.htm

10. Interview With Mary Gaitskill Interview with mary gaitskill. by Alexander Laurence (c) 1994 Q How long have youlived in San Francisco? mary gaitskill I've only been here for five months. http://www.altx.com/int2/mary.gaitskill.html

Interview with Mary Gaitskill by Alexander Laurence (c) 1994 Q How long have you lived in San Francisco? Mary Gaitskill I've only been here for five months. I went back and forth between Marin County and New York City for a while. Then I ran out of money, so I don't have my place in New York anymore. I moved to San Francisco because I started to go nuts in Marin. I realize that Marin County repels many people, but I didn't feel that way because I wanted to live somewhere that was very quiet and didn't demand anything of me. It's been hard for me to get connected to San Francisco. I'm not sure why. A lot of my life here has been very internal, but that's always been true of me. Q You sound like you don't drive? MG No, I don't. Which is one of the reasons that I liked being in Marin, because without a car, everything had to slow down to one mile an hour. You wouldn't think from my demeanor that I would require that, but I can be very amped up, even though I don't show it. Everything was slow like silly putty. That was good for me at the time. My internal state was so chaotic that I needed to be somewhere that wasn't going to reflect that back to me. Two Girls, Fat and Thin

11. Poetry Center - Gaitskill, Mary - 09/02/93 Reader gaitskill, mary. Accession Number 1102. Date 09/02/93. Length33 minutes. Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity white. http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/newcatalog/461.htm

Reader: Gaitskill, Mary Accession Number - 1102 Date: Length: 33 minutes Tape Quality: good Collection: Poetry Center Ethnicity: white Language: English Use Policy: available Content: "The Girl on the Plane." Shurin, Aaron (Intro.) Johnson, Fenton (Co-Reader) Comments or Questions Search Catalog

12. Salon Arts & Entertainment | Philosophy Of The Bedroom Philosophy of the bedroom mary gaitskill, Greil Marcus, David Gates, and Lisa Zeidner weigh in on Eyes Wide Shut . http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/1999/07/23/marcus/

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Columnists Current Wire Stories Click here to read the latest stories from the wires. Also Today For a full list Search Salon Advanced Search Help Movie Review "Drop Dead Gorgeous" By Mary Elizabeth Williams Music Review By Charles Taylor Movie Review "The Haunting" hilarious. By Stephanie Zacharek Column Here he is By Michael Sragow Music Review A new Astralwerks compilation takes the electronic pulse of underground urban America. By Amanda Nowinski Philosophy of the bedroom Mary Gaitskill, Greil Marcus, David Gates and Lisa Zeidner weigh in on "Eyes Wide Shut." July 23, 1999 Kubrick: A little kid lost in the sexual darkness By Mary Gaitskill Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" is built on the idea that sex is a dark, chaotic, destructive force. This is a poor foundation, though not because the idea is wrong exactly; sex can be all of the above. But sex is too primary, too deep and too big for the idea; what makes it most destructive and violent is part of what makes it creative and intensely loving. How these opposed qualities interact in each of us is complicated and tender and strange it goes all the way down to the bottom of us, the part we can't see into. It's easy to be scared of what you can't see, but it's a little kid who thinks that because he's afraid of the dark, the dark is therefore evil. "Eyes Wide Shut" has one strong early scene: A wife tells her husband of a moment some years past when a handsome young man simply glanced at her, and she was so inflamed that she would've thrown away her marriage for one night with him had the opportunity been there. That a complete stranger could arouse such a forceful primary response in her is scary for the characters and poignant for the viewer, poignant because it depicts how the underlayer of her unconscious what we can't see is at odds with the rational top layer of her life, creating an incongruity that might be funny or awful or both. At that point the movie is involving; we recognize the dilemma and want to see how it will play out.

13. Mary Gaitskill Discussion Bad Behavior by gaitskill, mary Released 10/2002. BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO by gaitskill,mary Released 02/1998. Bad Behavior by gaitskill, mary Released 06/1988. http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/mary gaitskill.html

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14. Personal Best: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame An article by mary gaitskill. http://www.salon.com/weekly/hugo960930.html

BY MARY GAITSKILL " T h e H u n c h b a c k o f N o t r e D a m e " b y V i c t o r H u g o Michael Chabon: The Swimmer by John Cheever Jeffrey Eugenides: Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Dwight Garner: On the Road by Jack Kerouac Denis Johnson: Fat City by Leonard Gardner Cynthia Joyce: Mating by Norman Rush Gary Kamiya: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Mignon Khargie: Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse Laura Miller: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Joyce Millman: Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Joyce Carol Oates: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Reynolds Price: A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone Andrew Ross: The Castle by Franz Kafka Scott Rosenberg: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Ian Shoales: The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles Finney Joan Smith: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Amy Tan: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Mary Elizabeth Williams: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Cintra Wilson: Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving i picked up this book on impulse during an odd pocket of time about seven years ago. I was living alone in a very isolated area and I was having insomnia so severe that I was only sleeping one to three hours a night. On top of that, when I did sleep, I had intense nightmares, all on the theme of brutish men viciously killing and/or raping women me for example. The dreams were terrifying, but they were also bewildering; while they could be explained by real-life fears, I felt they were more about me than anything external, and because I very much wanted to understand them, I thought a lot about them. Solitude, sleep deprivation, nightmares and self-examination are a loopy combination, and I spent my many waking hours moving in and out of an half-dream state in which the violent images from my subconscious loomed about me, leering ridiculously as I nodded off in the grocery store checkout line.

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16. Salon | Satan Goes To Harvard Salon Magazine mary gaitskill, melanie thernstrom, sinedu tadesse, trangho, ethiopia, vietnam, harvard, murder, suicide, evil, mental illness. http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1997/10/13gaitskill.html

All titles may not be immediately available. T A B L E T A L K Blasphemy! Discuss Macmillan/Picador's "Readers Edition" of Ulysses, with its "corrected" spellings, punctuation and grammar in Table Talk R E V I E W S The last time I wore a dress By Daphne Scholinski The memoir of a tomboyish young woman who spent three years in psychiatric hospitals being treated for "Gender Identity Disorder." R E C E N T L Y Declaration of independence By Joyce Carol Oates One nation, undercover By Laura Miller The Salon Classics Book Group Fiction Victim By Erica Jong Fall books By Dwight Garner J.G. Ballard on William S. Burroughs' "Naked truth" By Richard Kadrey and Suzanne Stefanac BOOKS ARCHIVE SATAN GOES TO HARVARD Is "evil" the best explanation for Sinedu Tadesse's savage murder of her college roommate? BY MARY GAITSKILL on May 28, 1995, a murder was committed at Harvard University: Sinedu Tadesse, a 20-year-old Ethiopian scholarship student, stabbed her roommate Trang Ho, a gifted 20-year-old Vietnamese immigrant also on a scholarship. More precisely, Tadesse stabbed Ho 45 times with a hunting knife she had bought expressly for that purpose while Ho lay sleeping in bed. Tadesse then hung herself with a noose she had prepared in advance. The crime was stunning not only because it was savage, but because, as a Harvard official commented at the time, "there (was) no apparent reason." All the ensuing media coverage, and all the speeches and meetings seemed to make the event more mysterious, not less.

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18. Salon | Because They Wanted To An excerpt from 'Because They Wanted To' by mary gaitskill, a Salon Book Awardswinner. Because They Wanted To By mary gaitskill Simon Schuster. http://www.salon.com/special/1998/bookawards/19sba_gaitskill.html

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19. NABOKOV By mary gaitskill. http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/nabokov.html

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Investors My Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov Sorcerer of cruelty By MARY GAITSKILL I n an interview, Vladimir Nabokov was once asked to comment on the popular authorial truism that one's fictional characters can sometimes "take over" and dictate to the author the course of a story. In his supercilious dismissal of this whimsical idea, Nabokov described his characters as "galley slaves" a comment exuding the playful, haughty spirit that drove (and still drives) some critics nuts. Such critics condemn Nabokov's authorial voice as elitist, inhuman and finally cruel. And that is an assessment his "slaves" might well agree with, subjected as they were to excruciating and ridiculous fates delineated in exquisite language and sparkling, albeit twisted, comic narratives. To a reader with a defensive turn of mind who is waiting to be told how to live or to be shown the Truth in a piece of fiction, the ruthless and rigorous complexity of Nabokov's work may seem cruel simply because it does not offer either of these services. Some readers apparently interpret the very beauty of his prose as cruel and there is a hyper-refinement, an airy, curiously high-pitched quality to its beauty that can feel cruel simply because it throws the whole beastly, mundane, plodding corporeality of human beings into such grotesque relief. Through this Apollonian oeuvre there frolic countless tiny nymphets most famously, Lolita Haze, with her dim eyes and big, bright mouth, her narrow-shouldered, hipless, insouciant grace. And therein also stump Mrs. Haze and her 30-ish sisters, with their gross emotional needs, their dumpy legs, their ghastly hips and boobs, the unbeautiful human personified with a fastidious shudder.

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