We stand by our assertion that the brief internet video clip is James Franco’s finest medium!
His most recent work: the trailer for Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story, in which he appears alongside such notables as Mary Gaitskill and Jeffrey Eugenides. He portrays a student Read More
Don’t Cry
By Mary Gaitskill
Pantheon, 226 pp., $23.95
A few seasons back on Showtime’s recently-wrapped lesbian soap opera The L Word, one of the main characters, an aspiring fiction writer named Jenny Schecter, decided to take some inspiration from Mary Gaitskill. This was never explicitly acknowledged on the show, but was Read More
Reading Mary Gaitskill is like having a flock of birds fly straight at your face: You register the beauty, but you still want to cover your eyes.
Alison Owen, the heroine of Ms. Gaitskill’s second novel, Veronica, is a 46-year-old former fashion model reduced to a modest early retirement in San Rafael, Calif., through Read More
