SOMETHING LIKE GRACE.

This is how Gaitskill depicts Quin, one of the two narrators of her most recent work of fiction, This Is Pleasure, who is caught up in a publishing industry scandal, the kind now familiar from the Me Too movement. Weakness in Gaitskill's work is both an enticement and a threat. Gaitskill's best-known piece of fiction, "Secretary", is a story about office work. A newly trained typist and the only first-person narrator in Bad Behavior, Debby finds a job doing "very dull work" for an unusually inquisitive lawyer. [Extracted from the article]