Gaitskill to Join Trias Series
19 September 2011 Gaitskill to Join Trias Series
As part of the Trias Residency Reading Series, writer Mary Gaitskill will read selections of her recent work on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. in the Geneva Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library.
Gaitskill most recently authored Dont Cry, a collection of stories, in 2009. Her novel 2005 Veronica, which narrates the single day of a former fashion model as she ruminates on life, youth and a friend who recently died of AIDS, was a National Book Award Nominee. Gaitskill also penned the compilation of short stories Because They Wanted To, which was nominated for the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998.
Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). Her story Secretary, part of her collection Bad Behavior, was the basis for the 2002 film of the same name. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Gaitskill teaches creative writing at Syracuse University.
The Trias Residency Reading Series is supported by The Peter Trias Endowed Fund for Poetry and Creative Writing. This valuable fund was established through a generous bequest fromPeter J. Trias 70.