Mary Gaitskill: 'Literature is not a realm for politeness'

From teenage runaway to young stripper and writer of disturbing New York stories, US author Mary Gaitskill has always done things her own difficult way. Here she talks about writing, parenting and teaching in the age of 'safe spaces' I meet Mary Gaitskill at a small corner coffee and barber's shop near where she lives in Williamsburg, New York. The guttural hiss of the steamer and the shouts of the baristas are too loud to hear ourselves speak so we take our flat whites and sit out on a low pave...