Don't CryBy: Mary Gaitskill 'A writer of prodigious gifts' Guardian Full of jagged, complex emotion and powerful, incisive writing, the stories in Don't Cry are a testament to Mary Gaitskill's incomparable excavation of character. 'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty three year old patient's virginity; 'Folk Song' dissects the lives of people behind newspaper headlines, including a murderer who gives a prime time interview and a woman