MARY GAITSKILL is the author of the story collections "Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To" (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), and "Don t Cry, " and the novels" Veronica "(nominated for a National Book Award) and "Two Girls, Fat and Thin." She has received 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.""
