{"id":32212265288,"date":"2018-07-25T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/event\/mary-gaitskill\/"},"modified":"2018-07-31T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T13:34:49","slug":"mary-gaitskill","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/event\/mary-gaitskill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Gaitskill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Awarding-winning author Mary Gaitskill is best known for delivering powerful stories of dislocation, longing, and desire with prose that \u201cglides lightly over unsoundable depths\u201d [Village Voice]. She is the author of the novels <em>Two Girls, Fat and Thin,<\/em> and <em>Veronica<\/em>, which was nominated for the 2005 National Book Award, National Critic\u2019s Circle Award, and L.A. Times Book Award. She is the author of the story collections <em>Bad Behavior<\/em> and <em>Because They Wanted To<\/em>, which was nominated for the PEN\/Faulkner in 1998. <em>Bad Behavior, <\/em>now a classic, made critical waves when it was first published, heralding Gaitskill&#8217;s arrival on the literary scene and established her as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing talents of contemporary literature. Her newest collection of stories is titled <em>Don\u2019t Cry<\/em> (2009):Written with her distinctive, uncanny combination of bluntness and high lyricism, <em>Don\u2019t Cry<\/em> takes its place among artworks of great moral seriousness.\u201d [Bomb Magazine]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mary Gaitskill was born in 1954 in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1981 Gaitskill graduated from the University of Michigan, where she won an award for her collection of short fiction <em>The Woman Who Knew Judo and Other Stories<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Gaitskill is famous for her novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica, which was nominated for the 2005 National Book Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40802227443,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2013-03-12 16:30:00","_EventEndDate":"2013-03-12 16:30:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2013-03-12 20:30:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2013-03-12 20:30:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artseries":[24],"arts":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-32212265288","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artseries-visiting-writers-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/32212265288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/32212265288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802229445,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/32212265288\/revisions\/40802229445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802227443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32212265288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32212265288"},{"taxonomy":"artseries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artseries?post=32212265288"},{"taxonomy":"arts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arts?post=32212265288"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=32212265288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}