Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays

In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, and 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. Witty, wide-ranging, tender, and beautiful, Somebody with a Little Hammer displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which Gaitskill’s writing has always been known.

• Veronica
• Bad Behavior: Stories
• Because They Wanted to: Stories
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
• The Mare: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
• In This Corner of the World
• Normal People
• Get in Trouble: Stories
• Afterland: Poems
• Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (New York Review Books Classics)