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A fine new story collection and a talk with author Mary Gaitskill about all this 'dark lady' stuff

IT'S EASY TO SEE HOW MARY GAITSKILL has gotten tagged as a writer specializing in "dark" preoccupations. Her first book, the 1988 story collection "Bad Behavior," was unfortunately promoted as a kinkier "Slaves of New York" because of its then trendy cast of prostitutes and arty, druggy downtowners; its notorious masterpiece, "A Romantic Weekend," makes a sinister comedy of a miserably awkward S&M tryst. Gaitskills 1991 novel, "Two Girls, Fat and Thin," also turns on an S&M ...

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