From a review of one of Mary Gaitskill’s short story collection:
In “The Wrong Thing”, the novella that concludes the collection, Ms. Gaitskill seems to be striving toward an uncertain goal, and (like her narrator, Susan) she isn’t entirely successful. She’s slightly out of her depth — which is exactly where she needs to be; it’s the only place she’s going to make the discoveries that will take her up to the next level and the levels beyond. Once an artist of her command relinquishes enough control to let her brilliance lead her where it wants to, anything is possible.
