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My AccountOver at The Portland Mercury, Alison Hallett interviews Mary Gaitskill about writing, reading, and the perils of publishers’ book jackets.
The original hardcover of Because They Wanted To had a giant screw on it, so it read “Because they wanted to….” I threw a fit, I tried to get them not to do it, but they gave me even worse covers—pictures of cannibalistic-looking women stripping the clothes off of a screaming man, or a girl in a wet dress leaning over with her hands on her butt. So, I picked the screw. It was tasteful in comparison.
