Serpent's Tail scoops Mary Gaitskill's #MeToo New Yorker tale

Serpent’s Tail has acquired a novella, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill, about the “unravelling of the life of a male publisher undone by allegations of sexual impropriety and harassment” which was first published in the New Yorker earlier this month. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-25 18:04:04 UTC ]

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Serpent's Tail scoops Mary Gaitskill's #MeToo New Yorker tale

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