Believer Gaitskill interview
Sheila Heti talks with Mary Gaitskill, who wouldn’t mind having a wife so she could focus more fully on her writing. (Via.)
Sheila Heti talks with Mary Gaitskill, who wouldn’t mind having a wife so she could focus more fully on her writing. (Via.)
Glenn Close hopes to make a film based on a John Banville screenplay that adapts a George Moore story.
Rupert Thomson finds his fragile half-brother after losing contact with him more than 20 years before. (Thanks, Susan.)
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