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Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir ...
Roxane Gay is the author, most recently, of “Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business” and a contributing Opinion writer.
Jun 7, 2017 · Growing up in suburban Nebraska, Roxane Gay was a happy, straight-A student from a loving family. But at age 12, she was gang-raped by a boy she adored and a group of his friends — and her life...
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Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. HUNGER is an amazing achievement in more ways than I can count. Ann Patchett, Commonwealth and Bel Canto. At its simplest, it’s a memoir about being fat — Gay’s preferred term — in a hostile, fat-phobic world.
May 13, 2024 · Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.) is a writer who gained widespread acclaim in 2014 for her book Bad Feminist, a collection of essays that reflect on her personal experiences, pop culture, and hot-button social issues.
In "Bad Feminist," her 2014 book of essays, Roxane Gay laid out a wise, funny and deeply empathetic vision of modern feminism, acceptance and identity -- flaws and all.
Books. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business 2023. The Sacrifice of Darkness 2020. Graceful Burdens 2020.
