5/21/2023 0 Comments Bad Behavior by K.A. Mitchell![]() ![]() Most days I arrived at 8am and left at 8pm. In addition to regular administrative and assistant-type duties, I was required to take out the enormous, invariably leaking bags of trash ( But I graduated with honors, I would whisper to myself as the warm garbage juice trickled down my leg), to clean the tiny, abused kitchen, and sometimes also to clean the carpet after the owners’ oft-unwalked dogs had had their way with it. ![]() ![]() I got an internship at a culture website, and then, after a few months, I also got my first real job: sitting at the front desk at NYLON magazine. Sure, I sort of wanted to be a writer, but I also still thought that writers were these exalted figures-each one as lofty and inhuman as Nabokov-and I didn’t really believe I could ever be one. I had just graduated from college and moved from rural Vermont to New York City, and I had very little idea what I was doing. I was 22 when I read Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior for the first time. ![]()
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