Free read: "This Is Pleasure" by Mary Gaitskill

Take a long break today — you deserve it — and enjoy a free novella, along with perhaps some strong emotions about the #MeToo movement.

The New Yorker is sharing This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill, a 2005 National Book Award finalist, along with a companion interview with the author.

It’s told alternately by a pair of friends, Margot and Quin, as a reflection upon the latter’s behavior throughout the years, viewed through the lens of sexual-harassment allegations against him.