Mary Gaitskill | This Is Pleasure

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About The Event: Join us for the inaugural meeting of the New Republic's Salon at the Strand! Each month, the New Republic will sit down with a lauded author to discuss their latest work in-depth, and their works in progress.

Mary Gaitskill, acclaimed for her fiction in collections like Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To, along with her novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica, and The Mare, will be joined by literary editor Laura Marsh for a conversation about This Is Pleasure, her latest searing novel.

Don't miss this first Salon from the New Republic with one of today's most beloved authors!

Mary Gaitskill’s most recent book is Somebody with a Little Hammer. She is also the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don’t Cry, and the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for the National Book Award), and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Artforum, and Granta, among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.

Laura Marsh is the literary editor of The New Republic and co-host of the podcast The Politics of Everything. She has written for the New York Review of Books, Dissent, Bookforum, The Times Literary Supplement and Literary Review. Previously she was an editor at the New York Review of Books.



Recorded November 13, 2019