Mary Gaitskill is at it again -- mining those twisted psyches and revealing the demographics of sex, power and intimacy -- in her first collection of short stories in more than a decade.

An interview with Mary Gaitskill by Alexander Laurence.

By Mary Gaitskill.

An article by Mary Gaitskill.

The author of "Bad Behavior" picks five tales of guys at the end of their ropes.