Namara Smith is an associate editor at n+1 and a contributing editor at Public Books.
Namara Smith
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Gaitskill’s Fictions of Disappointment
In “A Romantic Weekend,” a story from Mary Gaitskill’s first collection, Bad Behavior, a man and a woman who are only casually acquainted go out of town for the weekend. The two seem to have met in a bar, or possibly an S/M club, and recognize in each other the complementary desire to humiliate and […]
