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From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal. Whether she’s writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her subjects deftly and aphoristically and moves beyond them to locate the deep currents of longing, ambition, perversity, and loneliness in the American unconscious. She shows us the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Bj�rk, 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. And in the deceptively titled “Lost Cat,” she explores how the most intimate relationships may be warped by power and race.�
Witty, tender, beautiful, and unsettling, Somebody with a Little Hammer displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which we value Gaitskill’s fiction.
- Sales Rank: #6744 in Books
- Brand: PANTHEON
- Published on: 2017-04-04
- Released on: 2017-04-04
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.70" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
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“Gaitskill’s intuition . . . borders on clairvoyance. Her prescience is agenda-free, but it’s her exceptionally discerning writings on women—Linda Lovelace, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton—that make one wish she had (or even wanted) her own syndicated newspaper column.” —Kate Bolick, The New York Times Book Review
“Indispensable . . . Gaitskill has a gift for traversing taboo territory with a subtlety that’s sometimes downright Jamesian . . . She draws on her personal experience to crack the veneers of the social codes and sexual ambiguities we all navigate . . . Essential reading.” —Michael Upchurch, The Boston Globe
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“If you have not yet worked through a thought with Gaitskill, Somebody with a Little Hammer is a primer. It makes entirely clear how seriously she takes the idea of fairness, in life and in fiction, and how averse she is to even the lightest thumb on the scale.” —Sasha Frere-Jones, Bookforum
“As in her fiction, Gaitskill sees everything . . . The essays in Somebody with a Little Hammer . . . further establish her as the important critical thinker she’s always been. Her extreme sensitivity makes her one of the most reliable witnesses to life in the US.” —Chris Kraus, 4Columns
“While Gaitskill is best known for her fiction, this collection demonstrates her power as an essayist, and thrums with the same sexual energy.” —The New Yorker
“Mary Gaitskill never fails to transport her reader . . . These essays not only embrace but define their subjects, making you rethink the way you interact with the things around you in a much more meaningful way.” —Newsweek
“A voice of reason and sanity, of piercing intelligence and generous humanity.” —Sariah Dorbin, Los Angeles Review of Books
“[Mary Gaitskill] says the things you didn’t know needed to be said until she says them, and only then do you know what you’ve been missing.” —Emily Simon, The Buffalo News
“A cool and formidable collection.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Gaitskill is as original in these reviews and personal essays, gathered over two decades, as she is in her fiction; from pieces on Gone Girl and Talking Heads to others on losing her cat, date rape, and born-again Christianity her trajectory may seem apparent but she often takes us to unexpected, revelatory places.”
—Paul S. Makishima, The Boston Globe
“Gaitskill’s biting tongue and literary pyrotechnics make for a delightful combination.”
—Poornima Apte, Booklist
"This collection of essays spanning two decades has the same fearless curiosity about the human psyche that Gaitskill exhibits in her fiction, along with the same unerring precision of prose . . . The pages burst with insight and a candid, unflinching self-assessment sure to thrill Gaitskill’s existing fans and win her new ones."
—Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
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PRAISE FOR MARY GAITSKILL
�“No writer is sharper about the fickle exigencies of desire.”
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker
“Ambiguity—the inseparability of light and darkness, love and pain, nurture and destruction, progress and regress—is her m�tier. The question she seems to ask again and again, and with astonishing force . . . is how to feel, how we do feel.”
—Stacey D’Ersamo, The New York Times Book Review
“Gaitskill’s prose has never been cold, that’s only what it has been called; and her writing has never been about the absence of emotion so much as its unapologetic abundance. She resists sentimentality not by banishing feeling to the white margins with understatement but by granting emotion enough space to misbehave.”
—Leslie Jameson, Bookforum�
“Gaitskill’s strange gift is to unfold emotions, no matter how petty or upsetting, and describe them with disarming patience for their stutters and silences, their repetitions and contradictions. The result often feels both primal and electric, something like a latter-day D. H. Lawrence.”
—Amy Gentry, Chicago Tribune�
“Bracing in its rigorous truth-seeking, subtle and capacious in its moral vision, Gaitskill’s work feels more real than real life, and reading her leads to a place that feels like a sacred space.”
—Priscilla Gilman, The Boston Globe
About the Author
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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
To try and to succeed--great essays.
By gk bridges-Tollison
This is a fantastic collection of occasional essays & more. Gaitskill does go the heart of things, an understatement, and proves her ability to take the trivial and transform it into evocative meaning. Magic &, as it is a collection, something for everyone. If you enjoy her fiction, you will love these gems.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A few of them gain a great deal if you've actually read or heard the piece ...
By No'a bat Miri
If you're a fan of Gaitskill's writing, chances are you've caught some of these essays when they were published in magazines or anthologies, but it doesn't hurt to read them again. They're arranged more or less chronologically, so reading through from beginning to end gives a sort of interesting time travel sensation. A few of them gain a great deal if you've actually read or heard the piece of work she's commenting on, but most of them are developed and emotionally complex enough that you don't necessarily need to do a bunch of preparatory work before cracking this book. The positive things usually said about Gaitskill's work are definitely true, here, but this is the first time I've really felt a riveting empathy while reading her. I know, in my mind, that times before I was born were populated by real thinking, feeling, complicated people, but something in me references emotion as a very transient thing, something that often doesn't leave any visible marks, that can't be fully excavated or recovered. But Gaitskill is so attuned to the emotion of common things, that it makes sense that she'd be able to share the echo of both personal and cultural feelings from decades and movements past. She'll take you places: an oddly tattered Russia, a classy strip joint, her old apartment in Syracuse, but she succeeds in bringing you to the 60's and the 80's and the emotional imbroglio of everyday people just as effectively. That isn't common at all.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Good strong writing style and intellectually rigorous
By anonymous
Good strong writing style and intellectually rigorous, but a heavier on memoir than I expected and commentary on older issues and books that don't interest me now. I lost interest.
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