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Mary Gaitskill
The five kinds of party girls you find in literature.
(A taxonomy.)
By
Brittany Allen
| March 31, 2025
Seven Novels That Explore Friendship In All Its Messy, Complex Beauty
Jeremy Gordon Recommends Yukio Mishima, Elena Ferrante, Daniel Clowes, and More
By
Jeremy Gordon
| March 6, 2025
Writers I Have Met; Or, On Learning That Cormac McCarthy Was a Creep
Nathan Deuel Wonders What We Really Need From Our Literary Heroes
By
Nathan Deuel
| December 11, 2024
Find your next great read with a few simple—and delightfully weird—questions.
By
Jessie Gaynor
| November 8, 2024
The Annotated Nightstand: What Natalie Eilbert is Reading Now and Next
Monica Youn, Mary Gaitskill, Patrick Radden Keefe, and More
By
Diana Arterian
| May 17, 2023
Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill
The Author of
The Guest
Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
By
Literary Hub
| May 16, 2023
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Read Mary Gaitskill's sequel (of sorts) to her classic short story "Secretary."
By
Emily Temple
| March 20, 2023
What you should read next, based on your favorite
Midnights
song.
By
Katie Yee
| October 25, 2022
From Nabokov to Erdrich: Reading Complex Portraits of Criminality
By
Rebecca Bernard
| August 29, 2022
Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction
“Politics is how we fight it out on the ground.”
By
Mary Gaitskill
| August 19, 2022
Watching
Secretary
20 Years Later, Post-#MeToo
Emily Kenway on the Hollywoodization of Predation
By
Emily Kenway
| March 23, 2022
The 36 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2021
Timeless Reading Recommendations from the Lit Hub Staff
By
Emily Temple
| December 27, 2021
Mary Gaitskill on Borrowing From Real Life in Writing (and the Dreams That Guided Her)
How the Author of
Veronica
Tries to Honor the World
By
Mary Gaitskill
| October 22, 2021
Writer’s Block? Maggie Shipstead Befriends It Instead of Fighting It
The Author of
Great Circle
Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
By
Literary Hub
| May 7, 2021
Mary Gaitskill on Love, Violence, and Submission in
Agaat
A Novel of Apartheid-Era South Africa
By
Mary Gaitskill
| December 11, 2020
43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language
From Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian
By
Emily Temple
| August 19, 2020
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November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
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by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"