'TWO GIRLS, FAT AND THIN'

Literature & Fiction

MARY GAITSKILL

Contemporary

Vintage

This is a first collection of short stories by a former stripper and panhandler who has previously won several prizes for short fiction. These strange and poignant stories of seedy New York life are concerned with social isolation and sexual depravity.

Bad Behaviour

Scepter Pubs

The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 includes Peter S. Beagle, Kathleen Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Jesse Goolsby, Lou Manfredo, Thomas McGuane, Gina Paoli, T. Jefferson Parker, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Charles Todd, Daniel Woodrell, and others

The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 (The Best American Series)

Kathleen Ford

Peter S. Beagle

Tom Andes

K. L. Cook

Jason DeYoung

Jesse Goolsby

Thomas J. Rice

United States

Mariner Books

Justine is slim and Dorothy obese. As their relationship develops they reveal what lies beneath the surface of their normal suburban childhoods: cruel power games, painful tension between intimacy and isolation, denial and fulfillment, and the betrayal of love and innocence.

Two Girls, Fat And Thin

Literary

Chatto&Windus

Magazine. Essays. Fiction. Poetry. Edited by Bradford Morrow. Published in the Spring and Fall of each year by Bard College. The forty-eighth issue of CONJUNCTIONS celebrates that yearning which bends the soul out of its original shape-desire-in all its forms, all its hostile and gentle multiplicities. Featuring the work of Mary Gaitskill, H.C. Carrillo, Joyce Carol Oates, David Shields, Anne Tardos, Robert Kelly, Elizabeth Hand, Aimee Bender, Robert Olen Butler, Cole Swensen, Shena McAuliffe, Luc Sante, Devin Magee, Mary Caponegro, Reginald Shepherd, John D'Agata, Siri Hustvedt, Johnathan Lethem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Will Self, Eleni Sikelianos, Lewis Warsh, Michael White, Rikki Ducornet, Andrew Mossin, Mei-me-Burssenbrugge, Paul West, Susan Steinberg, Donald Revell, Rebecca Seiferle, Tova Reich, Juliana Leslie, S.G. Miller, Brian Evanson, Carol Maso, and Frederic Tuten.

Conjunctions 48: Faces of Desire

Arts & Photography

JOYCE CAROL OATES

Robert Olen Butler

WILL SELF

Brian Evenson

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Mary Caponegro

Carole Maso

Donald Revell

H.G. Carrillo

History & Criticism

Bard College

San Francisco Plays Itself utilizes the notion of autobiography as a way to explore the work of contemporary artists who have engaged with the cultural and physical landscape of the Bay Area. Featuring more than 35 photographs by 31 artists, accompanying texts provide a contextualizing articulation by each artist of his or her work that serves to emphasize the autobiographical focus in egalitarian terms. The cumulative effect of these projects exemplifies the evolution of a specific time and place, while representing the unlimited experiences and possibilities of life in a major American metropolitan region. INCLUDING WORK &amp; CONTRIBUTIONS BY: John Chiara, Mark Citret, Judy Dater, Kota Ezawa, Alex Fradkin, Jona Frank, Richard Gilles, Jim Goldberg, Katy Grannan, John Harding, Chauncey Hare, Christina Koci Hernandez, Zig Jackson, Michael Jang, Keba Konte, Annie Leibovitz, Alice Waters, Ken Light, Ari Marcopoulos, Mary Ellen Mark, Laura Albert, Ken Miller, William Vollmann, Richard Misrach, Abelardo Morell, Dan Nicoletta, Gus Van Sant, Catherine Opie, Adam Klein, Michael Rauner, Alice Shaw, Shi Guorui, Larry Sultan, Sergio De La Torre, Tseng Kwong Chi, Catherine Wagner, and Mary Gaitskill. 
PLUS THE NEW CD BY THE SIZE QUEENS featuring guest appearances by Laura Albert, Carlos Forster, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Tim Mooney, John Murry, Danny Pearson, and Terese Taylor.

An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Parts 1 & 2, Part 1: San Francisco Plays Itself

Alice Waters

Catherine Opie

Larry Sultan

Abelardo Morell

Mary Ellen Mark

Richard Misrach

Chauncey Hare

Gus Van Sant

John Chiara

Laura Albert

Shi Guorui

The Size Queens

Photography & Video

SF Camerawork Publications

AUDIO BOOK ON CASSETTE TAPE -- UNABRIDGED -- READ by KATHE MAZUR -- FICTION -- 8 HOURS 30 MINUTES -- 5 CASSETTES -- HARDSHELL CASE --

VERONICA

Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories--her first in more than ten years.In "College Town 1980," young people adrift in Ann Arbor, Michigan, debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale "Mirror Ball," a young man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; and in "The Little Boy," a woman haunted by the death of her husband is finally able to grieve through a mysterious encounter with a needy child.Each story delivers the powerful, original language and the dramatic engagement of the intelligent mind with the craving body--or of the intelligent body with the craving mind--that has come to be seen as stunningly emblematic of Gaitskill's fiction.

Don't Cry: Stories

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Amazon Best of the Month, March 2009: Mary Gaitskill has a reputation as the chronicler of bad relationships, but that label doesn't do justice to the stories she tells. Her relationships turn bad, or turn good, or just turn (and turn and turn). In every exploitation there's an attraction, or at least an accommodation; in every hostility there's a yearning for, or at least a memory of, connection. You see the intensity of people--friends and family as well as lovers--drawn together, and the often equally intense emptiness when the magnet flips and repels. Gaitskill is one of our best short story writers (that's a label that's fully just) and the prickly, sad brilliance of her last book, Veronica, confirmed her as a master of the novel, too. Don't Cry is just her third story collection in 20 years, after the modern classics Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To, and it reminds you immediately of why you've been longing to read her again. Once more, there are former lovers and ex-friends and parents and children who have not quite made a hash of things, but there's also a broadening in this collection, especially in the title story, which looks at the ties of family and friendship when they are stretched across the global distance of privilege and poverty. --Tom Nissley

Velveteen Vargas is an eleven-year-old from Brooklyn who is granted a summer vacation in the country, courtesy of the nonprofit Fresh Air Fund. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, an alcoholic artist, and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to ''make a difference'' in such a contrived situation. We see the couple's changing relationship with Velvet over the course of several years, as well as Velvet's powerful encounter with the horses at the stable down the road -- a weaving together of Velvet's vital inner-city community and the privileged country world of Ginger and Paul.

The Mare

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