21. Salon Arts & Entertainment | Philosophy Of The Bedroom Philosophy of the bedroom mary gaitskill, Greil Marcus, David Gates, and Lisa Zeidner weigh in on Eyes Wide Shut . http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/1999/07/23/marcus/

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Columnists Current Wire Stories Click here to read the latest stories from the wires. Also Today For a full list Search Salon Advanced Search Help Movie Review "Drop Dead Gorgeous" By Mary Elizabeth Williams Music Review By Charles Taylor Movie Review "The Haunting" hilarious. By Stephanie Zacharek Column Here he is By Michael Sragow Music Review A new Astralwerks compilation takes the electronic pulse of underground urban America. By Amanda Nowinski Philosophy of the bedroom Mary Gaitskill, Greil Marcus, David Gates and Lisa Zeidner weigh in on "Eyes Wide Shut." July 23, 1999 Kubrick: A little kid lost in the sexual darkness By Mary Gaitskill Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" is built on the idea that sex is a dark, chaotic, destructive force. This is a poor foundation, though not because the idea is wrong exactly; sex can be all of the above. But sex is too primary, too deep and too big for the idea; what makes it most destructive and violent is part of what makes it creative and intensely loving. How these opposed qualities interact in each of us is complicated and tender and strange it goes all the way down to the bottom of us, the part we can't see into. It's easy to be scared of what you can't see, but it's a little kid who thinks that because he's afraid of the dark, the dark is therefore evil. "Eyes Wide Shut" has one strong early scene: A wife tells her husband of a moment some years past when a handsome young man simply glanced at her, and she was so inflamed that she would've thrown away her marriage for one night with him had the opportunity been there. That a complete stranger could arouse such a forceful primary response in her is scary for the characters and poignant for the viewer, poignant because it depicts how the underlayer of her unconscious what we can't see is at odds with the rational top layer of her life, creating an incongruity that might be funny or awful or both. At that point the movie is involving; we recognize the dilemma and want to see how it will play out.

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23. Salon | Because They Wanted To An excerpt from Because They Wanted To by mary gaitskill, a Salon Book Awards winner. Because They Wanted To By mary gaitskill Simon Schuster. http://www.salon.com/special/1998/bookawards/19sba_gaitskill.html

Alias Grace By Margaret Atwood Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Cold Mountain By Charles Frazier Atlantic Monthly Press Because They Wanted To By Mary Gaitskill By Thomas Pynchon Henry Holt The Reader By Bernhard Schlink Pantheon How Proust Can Change Your Life By Alain de Botton Pantheon The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down By Anne Fadiman Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer Villard Echoes of a Native Land By Serge Schmemann Knopf Close to the Machine By Ellen Ullman City Lights Books Reader's choice awards Your best books of 1997 Introduction Salon's favorite books of the year Sneak Peeks Salon's daily book review sponsored by Borders Books and Music Win a free Salon mousepad. Sign up for our newsletter. Join the Books discussion in Table Talk. P.D. James The Salon Interview SALON home page because they wanted to BY MARY GAITSKILL FICTION SIMON AND SHUSTER 254 PAGES "Tiny, Smiling Daddy" H e lay in his reclining chair, barely awake enough to feel the dream moving just under his thoughts. It felt like one of those pure, beautiful dreams in which he was young again, and filled with the realization that the friends who had died, or gone away, or decided that they didn't like him anymore, had really been there all along, loving him. A piece of dream flickered, and he made out the lips and cheekbones of a tender woman, smiling as she leaned toward him. The phone rang, and the sound rippled through his pliant wakefulness, into the pending dream. But his wife had turned the answering machine up too loud again, and it attacked him with a garbled, furred roar that turned into the voice of his friend Norm.

24. NABOKOV By mary gaitskill. http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/nabokov.html

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Investors My Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov Sorcerer of cruelty By MARY GAITSKILL I n an interview, Vladimir Nabokov was once asked to comment on the popular authorial truism that one's fictional characters can sometimes "take over" and dictate to the author the course of a story. In his supercilious dismissal of this whimsical idea, Nabokov described his characters as "galley slaves" a comment exuding the playful, haughty spirit that drove (and still drives) some critics nuts. Such critics condemn Nabokov's authorial voice as elitist, inhuman and finally cruel. And that is an assessment his "slaves" might well agree with, subjected as they were to excruciating and ridiculous fates delineated in exquisite language and sparkling, albeit twisted, comic narratives. To a reader with a defensive turn of mind who is waiting to be told how to live or to be shown the Truth in a piece of fiction, the ruthless and rigorous complexity of Nabokov's work may seem cruel simply because it does not offer either of these services. Some readers apparently interpret the very beauty of his prose as cruel and there is a hyper-refinement, an airy, curiously high-pitched quality to its beauty that can feel cruel simply because it throws the whole beastly, mundane, plodding corporeality of human beings into such grotesque relief. Through this Apollonian oeuvre there frolic countless tiny nymphets most famously, Lolita Haze, with her dim eyes and big, bright mouth, her narrow-shouldered, hipless, insouciant grace. And therein also stump Mrs. Haze and her 30-ish sisters, with their gross emotional needs, their dumpy legs, their ghastly hips and boobs, the unbeautiful human personified with a fastidious shudder.

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gnod web music books ... movies Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill Released 05/1989 BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO: STORIES by Gaitskill, Mary Released 02/1998 Bad Behavior by Gaitskill, Mary Released 06/1988 TWO GIRLS FAT AND THIN by Gaitskill, Mary Released 02/1998 Because They Wanted To : Stories by Gaitskill, Mary Released 01/1997 Bleak House by Charles Dickens Released 07/2002 Open City Number Five : Change or Die by Wallace, David Foster Released 05/1997 Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Gaitskill, Mary Released 02/1991 TWO GIRLS, FAT AND THIN by Mary Gaitskill Released 05/1992 Bad Behaviour by Gaitskill, Mary Released / Two Girls Fat and Thin by Gaitskill, Mary Released / Open City 7: The Rubbed Away Girl by Gaitskill, Mary Released 02/1999 Mal Comportamiento by Gaitskill, Mary Released 01/1998 Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Gaitskill, Mary Released 07/1993 Bad Behaviour by Gaitskill, Mary Released 03/1989 Discussion: Mary Gaitskill i like the pseudo-marital relationships that the alpha female characters are able to represent in the fictional and non -fictional based genre. mmmmmmmmmmmm women books yeah right uh huh.

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27. Poetry Center - Gaitskill, Mary - 09/02/93 Reader gaitskill, mary. Accession Number 1102 http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit/newcatalog/461.htm

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28. GAITSKILL, Mary., TWO GIRLS, FAT AND THIN. A Novel. The Americanist. gaitskill, mary. TWO GIRLS, FAT AND THIN. A Novel. NY Poseidon Press, (1991). First edn, in fine dust wrapper, of her 2nd book. $US25. http://www.polybiblio.com/americanist/373W.html

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32. Post Magazine: Love Lessons (washingtonpost.com) Author mary gaitskill and her husband thought bringing a poor urban child into their home in the country for two weeks would be a rewarding experience. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5046-2004May5.html

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39. Talk.com Presents Monday, 27 January 2 pm PST (2200 GMT) mary gaitskill In 1988, the cast of deviants and desperadoes looking for love in all the wrong places in mary http://hotwired.wired.com/talk/presents/97/03/index2a.html

Search: Wired News Webmonkey Animation Express HotWired Archives Wired Magazine The Web -> HotBot for Previously in Talk.com Mixmaster Morris 9 January Mark Vaz 3 January Allen Ginsberg 16 December Gillian Anderson 14 December DJ Dimitri from Paris 11 December SOS Radio TNC 10 December Reality Check authors Brad Wieners and David Pescovitz 9 December Spring Heel Jack 6 December They Might Be Giants 20 November Lynn Hershman Leeson 19 November Trance Mission 14 November Graham Parker 4 November Women Poets of the Beat Generation 4 November Complete archive Check out other events in Talk.com Monday, 27 January 2 p.m. PST (22:00 GMT) Mary Gaitskill In 1988, the cast of deviants and desperadoes looking for love in all the wrong places in Mary Gaitskill's debut story collection, Bad Behavior (Vintage), generated much excitement for readers and critics alike. Since then, she's followed up with her 1991 novel, Two Girls, Fat and Thin (Vintage), and her short fiction appears regularly in Harpers, The New Yorker, and many "best of" collections. Now, out with a new collection, Because They Wanted To On the Web Quotes On the Web Read Mary's story " The Dentist " - about one woman's obsession with her mild-mannered oral physician - currently being featured on Word Mary Gaitskill talked about her new life in San Francisco, the fetishization of romance, and the evolution of her writing and characterization in an

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Because They Wanted to by Mary Gaitskill Reviewed by Elisabeth Harvor A STRANGE JANGLING BEAUTY In Tiny, Smiling Daddy, the opening story in Mary Gaitskill's new collection, Because They Wanted To, a sexually prodigal daughter discharges "her strange jangling beauty" into her father's house, "changing the molecules of its air". In another story (Processing), a waitress, "vibrant with purpose" pours water for her dinner guests "with a harried rattle of ice". At a party in Palo Alto, light "runs and flirts on silverware". All of these glimpses into Gaitskill's latest stories illustrate how charged her language can be, and how much it is animated (in spite of its dark themes) by both boldness and joie de vivre. In other Gaitskill stories, many of the characters act as impish raconteurs of narratives that reveal their own pain or shame. Their audience is made up of a sort of floating opera of fast friends, scoffers, and therapists manque. Privacy is sacrificed to get at "the truth" about both intimacy and the potential life has for the playful (and in particular for the sexually playful) to be extended into adulthood. But sex, in Gaitskill's world, is mischievous, cerebral, brutal, or even described with an almost dainty candour, the one thing it is not is sexy.

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