Collection: Author of the Month

Our Author of the Month for November is the novelist, essayist and short story writer Mary Gaitskill.

Beginning with her story collection Bad Behaviour, Gaitskill’s central project has been an intimate examination of urban life, in all its complexity. Sex and sensuality have been abiding themes of her work, its physical reality and its often troubling emotional and spiritual dimensions. Reviewing her latest work of fiction This Is Pleasure for the Guardian, Sarah Hall wrote ‘Gaitskill is phenomenally gifted at the metaphysical microcosmic. She makes the abstruse world clearer.’