Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is the author of three novels, three books of short stories, and an essay collection. She was born in Kentucky, sold flowers in San Francisco as a teenage runaway and now lives in Brooklyn. In 2002 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and that same year her story ‘Secretary’, from the collection Bad Behaviour, was made into a film. Her most recent works are the novel The Mare and the collection of essays Somebody with a Little Hammer.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 107
Lost Cat
Mary Gaitskill
‘Which deaths are tragic and which are not? Who decides what is big and what is little?’