Why Is This Good?

074: “This Is Pleasure” by Mary Gaitskill


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In this episode, we discuss “This is Pleasure” by Mary Gaitskill. What can we learn from a story with two first-person narrators? How can physical description help characterize a character? How do the feelings point-of-view characters have about something frame a story’s overall perspective? What’s the difference between a story and a character sketch?

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