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Friday Seminar with Mary Gaitskill
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, September 17, 2010, 6–8 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Info: Email Teresa Walsh at twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
Note: Special 6 p.m. start time for this event only
Free and open to the public
About Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is the author of Because They Wanted To (Simon & Schuster, 1997), which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as the novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin (Simon & Schuster,1991). Her novel Veronica (Vintage, 2005) was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National Book Critics Circle finalist for that year. The story "Secretary," from her debut collection Bad Behavior (Vintage, 1989), also a National Book Award finalist, was made into a film of the same name in 2002 with James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in New York. Her most recent collection of short stories, Don’t Cry (Pantheon, 2009), is now out in paperback.
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