Somebody with a Little Hammer de Mary Gaitskill

Somebody with a Little Hammer

Mary Gaitskill

In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Bjork, and the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the clownish grandiosity and the poetry of Norman Mailer's long career and maps the sociosexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace. Witty, wide-ranging, tender, and beautiful, Somebody with a Little Hammer displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which Gaitskill's writing has always been known.

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Mary Gaitskill is 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.

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A Lot of Exploding Heads
On Reading the Book of Revelation

The Trouble with Following the Rules
On “Date Rape,” “Victim Culture,” and Personal Responsibility

A Lovely Chaotic Silliness
A Review of The Fermata by Nicholson Baker

Toes’nHose
A Review ofFrom the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hoseby Elmer Batters, andNothing But the Girl,edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener

Crackpot Mystic Spirit
A Review ofInvisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapesby Greil Marcus

Bitch
A Review ofBitch: In Praise of Difficult Womenby Elizabeth Wurtzel

Dye Hard
A Review ofBlondeby Joyce Carol Oates

Mechanical Rabbit
A Review ofLicks of Loveby John Updike

I’ve Seen It All
Thoughts on a Song by Björk

And It Would Not Be Wonderful to Meet a Megalosaurus
OnBleak Houseby Charles Dickens

Remain in Light
On the Talking Heads

Victims and Losers: A Love Story
Thoughts on the Movie Secretary

The Bridge
A Memoir of Saint Petersburg

Somebody with a Little Hammer
On Teaching “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov

Enchantment and Cruelty
OnPeter Panby J. M. Barrie

Worshipping the Overcoat
An Election Diary

This Doughty Nose
On Norman Mailer’sAn American DreamandThe Armies of the Night

Lost Cat
A Memoir

I See Their Hollowness
A Review ofCockroachby Rawi Hage

Lives of the Hags
A Review ofBaba Yaga Laid an Eggby Dubravka Ugresic

Leave the Woman Alone!
On the Never-Ending Political Extramarital Scandals

Master’s Mind
A Review ofAgaatby Marlene van Niekerk

Imaginary Light
A Song Called “Nowhere Girl”

Form over Feeling
A Review ofOutby Natsuo Kirino

Beg for Your Life
On the Films of Laurel Nakadate

The Cunning of Women
OnOne Thousand and One Nightsby Hanan al-Shaykh

Pictures of Lo
On CoveringLolita

The Easiest Thing to Forget
On Carl Wilson’sLet’s Talk About Love

She’s Supposed to Make You Sick
A Review ofGone Girlby Gillian Flynn

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On Linda Lovelace

That Running Shadow of Your Voice
On Nabokov’sLetters to Véra

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