At a panel discussion for the New Yorker Festival featuring Emma Cline, Mary Gaitskill, and moderator Molly Fisher, Cline said John Cheever’s much-anthologized short story “The Swimmer,” which first ...

Everyone weathered the pandemic in their own way. Out of the isolation, literary icon Mary Gaitskill forged a reimagining of her own work by stitching together fragments of previously published pieces ...

A few seasons back on Showtime’s recently-wrapped lesbian soap opera The L Word, one of the main characters, an aspiring fiction writer named Jenny Schecter, decided to take some inspiration from Mary ...

When a literary author critiques a mass market success, it's easy to assume the review to be a case of a highbrow author looking down on less "substantial" genre work. But that supposedly wasn't the ...

All walls are down in Mary Gaitskill's fiction. Wordless messages throng the air, stolen souls clamor in a closet, a lost father inhabits a passing stranger. The ordinary gets rucked up like a rug, ...

Reyn is the author of the novel "What Happened to Anna K." In the stories of Mary Gaitskill, characters confront one another on a stage where ideas struggle to the death. There are never answers, only ...

Everyone weathered the pandemic in their own way. Out of the isolation, literary icon Mary Gaitskill forged a reimagining of her own work by stitching together fragments of previously published pieces ...