{"id":101,"date":"2006-12-01T01:10:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T06:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=101"},"modified":"2012-02-29T23:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T04:49:06","slug":"bss-81-mary-gaitskill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-81-mary-gaitskill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Gaitskill (BSS #81)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Gaitskill is most recently the author of <i>Veronica<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/marygaitskill.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"marygaitskill\" width=\"450\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7531\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=101-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo81.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 34:04 &#8212; 31.2MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Feeling triumphant over hepatitis.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nba2005_f_gaitskill.html\">Mary Gaitskill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Emotional mood and writing, Marin County, horticultural details, decomposition and decay, dichotomous characters and the gray areas of life, unusual character relationships, the conscious design of <i>Veronica<\/i>&#8216;s environments, office environments, the modeling world, maintaining a consistent vision over ten years, rumination vs. urgency in the writing process, Gaitskill&#8217;s placid demeanor, distractions, word processors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2127681\/\">Francine Prose&#8217;s review<\/a>, ordinary vs. extraordinary narrative, sympathy and didacticism, the text as sympathetic medium between writer and reader, responding to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/books\/0542,bstrong,68970,10.html\">Benjamin Strong&#8217;s assertion<\/a> that Gaitskill isn&#8217;t interested in the novel as social or political commentary, ideology, ambiguity, Ayn Rand, favoritism towards optimistic novels, shock value in literature vs. shock value in television, misfits, Irini Spanidou&#8217;s championing of truth, and auctorial perception.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B><\/p>\n<p><B>Gaitskill:<\/b> When I&#8217;m reading another writer, even if I feel they&#8217;re technically accomplished, if I feel they have an ordinary mind, I am often &#8212; I wouldn&#8217;t say I totally lose interest.  But it&#8217;s something that I don&#8217;t like to see in a writer.  It&#8217;s almost like you can write about anything in an extraordinary way, not in a showy way.  But to write about something extraordinary, I think, is usually to see it clearly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7532\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=101-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo81.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo81.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 34:04 &#8212; 31.2MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Gaitskill is most recently the author of Veronica. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Feeling triumphant over hepatitis. 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