Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Mary Gaitskill
Born: November 11, 1954 (age 70)
Bio: Mary Gaitskill is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
Known for:
- Bad behavior (1988)
- Two girls, fat and thin (1991)
- Because They Wanted To (1997)
- Veronica (2005)
- The Mare: A Novel (2015)