FICTION PODCAST: JENNIFER EGAN READS MARY GAITSKILL

Jennifer Egan reads Mary Gaitskill’s story “The Other Place,” which explores the consciousness of a man who fantasizes about hurting women and worries that his son has inherited his obsession. Egan says that she was “eager to revisit” the story because of the way it conveys “a feeling of intense menace, but mixed with a lot of other complicated humanity, specifically parenthood, and, I think, too, the feeling of redemption that somehow Mary Gaitskill managed to wrest from this very dark and threatening situation.”