A review by elizabthgreene
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

hmmmmm I read mary’s interview in the paris review and I j’adored it, ran to read this and was just meh on it? and I loved Secretary: The Film too! but stories felt a bit overwritten in detail, but lacking some of the punch I like in short stories?! I feel stumped…mayb she was the first real one to do the whole waify emo sub girl thing, but I much preferred her stories about women on women (good complicated relatable friendship stuff!). the finale, “Heaven,” a Time Passes by Woolf ripoff, was formally neat but not much else going on. mary I still like you and ur substack tho!