Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior , Because They Wanted To (nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don't Cry , the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for the National Book Award), Two Girls, Fat and Thin , and a collection of essays, Somebody with A Little Hammer . Her stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Artforum , and Granta , among many other journals, as well as in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.