One of my favorite Hooksexup interviews is this one, with Mary Gaitskill from November, 2005, when her novel Veronica was published. Gaitskill discusses intimacy, AIDS in the 1980s and 2000s, pity, feminism and, of course, Veronica.
“A confidently sexual person doesn't have to announce it all that much. But if it's who you are — if you love to get dressed up in the big heels and the tiny skirt and the wig and the whatever, why not? But I don't feel like that should be idealized any more than the modest, demure person. The same woman can feel both ways on different occasions.”