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Mary Gaitskill (innate 1954) made her debut within 1988 by having a short story collection "Bad Behaviour". Her fiction is heavy according to emotions & characterization & her subject matter deals by having numbers of taboo cases like prostitution, addiction, and sado-masochism.

A film "Secretary" released on Lions Gate Films is based on the short story of hers.

Bibliography
Bad Behavior (1988) Two Girls, Plump out & Thinly (1991) Because It Wanted to (1997) Veronica (2005)

Interview with Mary Gaitskill
An interview with Mary Gaitskill by Alexander Laurence.

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.

My inspiration: Vladimir Nabobov
By Mary Gaitskill.

Salon Books | Men at extremes
The author of "Bad Behavior" picks five tales of guys at the end of their ropes.

Personal Best: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
An article by Mary Gaitskill.






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