Roxane Gay, Author, Profsor and Mentor - Brief but Spectacular | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR
• ROXANE GAY BGRAPHY
• BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'
• ROXANE GAY

HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR

Roxane Gay shows how to be cent to ourselv, and cent to one another.

ROXANE GAY BGRAPHY

At s simplt, ’s a memoir about beg fat — Gay’s preferred term — a hostile, fat-phobic world. A memoir that’s so brave, so raw, feels as if [Gay]’s entstg you wh her soulSeattle Tim.

BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'

Gay turns to memoir this powerful reflectn on her childhood trmas…Timely and ronant, you n be sure that Hunger will touch a nerve, as so much of Roxane Gay’s wrg do.

ROXANE GAY

Gay ni that hers is a story of “triumph, ” but rears will be hard prsed to fd a better word. In 88 short, lucid chapters, Gay powerfully tak rears through reali that pa her, vex her, gui her, and rm her work. And on nearly every page, Gay’s raw, powerful prose plants a flag, facg down s of shame and self-loathg by reclaimg the body she never should have had to lose.

Gay, live your life.

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