About Mary Gaitskill:
Mary Gaitskill is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993, 2006, 2012), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998).
Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.
Mary Gaitskill