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Major Author Reading Series: Mary Gaitskill

Acclaimed novelist and short story writer Mary Gaitskill will kick off Manhattan
College’s Major Authors Reading Series (M.A.R.S.) on Monday, Sept. 23.
Gaitskill is the author of Veronica, a novel nominated for the 2005 National Book Award, National Critic’s Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She also wrote Two Girls and Fat and Thin, along with story collections entitled Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To and Don’t Cry.

According to the Village Voice, “There may be no better
writer than Gaitskill at reaching deep into what she calls ... ‘the
trapdoors in personality and obsession’ … Past, present, future; heartbreak, desire and loss — none of it is quite beyond her."
The series is co-sponsored by the College’s English department and
the School of Arts, in cooperation this semester with the Women and
Gender Studies program. All of the M.A.R.S. events are open to the
public and will be held in Hayden Hall, room 100.

For more information about M.A.R.S., please contact Adam Koehler, assistant professor of English, at (718) 862-7546 or adam.koehler@manhattan.edu or Dominika Wrozynski, assistant professor of English, at (718) 862-7921 or dominika.wrozynski@manhattan.edu.

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