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Mary Gaitskill is a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer celebrated by readers and critics (this one included) for her uncompromising acuity and clear-eyed vivisection of our mottled human nature.
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Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
Or how about in District 9 where an entire alien race is subjected to squalor, neglect, and vivisection?
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2010
The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.
—Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Now, 25 years later, under the moniker Tanner Leatherstein, Yildiz is parlaying his insight into leather into an addictive TikTok presence involving entertaining vivisections of designer leather bags.
—Isabel Slone, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2023
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Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
Or how about in District 9 where an entire alien race is subjected to squalor, neglect, and vivisection?
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2010
The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.
—Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Now, 25 years later, under the moniker Tanner Leatherstein, Yildiz is parlaying his insight into leather into an addictive TikTok presence involving entertaining vivisections of designer leather bags.
—Isabel Slone, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2023
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“Vivisection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vivisection. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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