Roxane Gay talks about what mak a soul mate this week's episo of The Advote's podst, LGBTQ&A.
Contents:
- WE SAT DOWN WH ROXANE GAY TO TALK ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND SOUL MAT
- WHAT TO READ IF YOU HAVEN'T YET READ ROXANE GAY
- ROXANE GAY
- HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR
WE SAT DOWN WH ROXANE GAY TO TALK ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND SOUL MAT
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Gay draws a hard le. Roxane Gay's known for her honty, her willgns to tackle plited subjects; she's wrten extensively about her childhood sexual asslt. I sat down wh Roxane Gay, the btsellg thor of Bad Femist and Hunger, for this week's episo of The Advote's podst, LGBTQ&A, to talk about the other challeng that e wh wrg about love, how she's jt enterg to her sexual prime at 44, and why the stori of trma her rears share keep her up at night.
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WHAT TO READ IF YOU HAVEN'T YET READ ROXANE GAY
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Podst: The Roxane Gay Agenda. This summer has been the summer of Roxane Gay, and the world is the better for . As Gay told The Great Disntent, she started to publish her work "very refully" lerary journals the late '90s.
And if all the chatter mak you want to dive to Gay's work, here are some fantastic says and stori by the wrer you n read now, for ee, to nvce you why you should be a Roxane Gay fangirl, Magaze: "Motherfuckers"A brief and quietly vastatg story about a kid named Gérard who mov to Ameri om Hai. Gay, who has Haian parents and grew up Nebraska “raised as a Haian-Amerin, ” imbu the short scen wh a potent mix of sendhand and firsthand sentence: “'Je te tte, ' he says. ”BuzzFeed: "Not Here to Make Friends"The tle is a monly tmpeted battle cry for female realy petors, whether they’re fightg for a bachelor or a molg ntract, but Gay to ame her wish for more unlikeable female characters lerature.
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This summer has been the summer of Roxane Gay, and the world is the better for . Her first novel, An Untamed State, was published by Grove Atlantic May, and her say llectn Bad Femist has jt been released by Harper Perennial (… * roxane gay articles *
"xoJane: "My Body is Wildly Undiscipled and I Deny Myself Nearly Everythg I Dire"In the aftermath of this year’s Biggt Loser fale, which a nttant lost what many nsired to be an unhealthy amount of weight, Gay nsired her own relatnship to her body.
” She ticks off a list of ways she tri to make her “wildly undiscipled” body more acceptable — by wearg dark cloth, by not eatg junk food public, and by nyg herself over and over problem of body image Ameri is real, and Gay is not aaid to reveal the parts of herself that don’t f to the typil female weight loss narrative of privatn → thns → happs.
”New York Magaze: "The 10 Bt Books About Morn Virgs"Ask a normal person for a list of book remendatns, and you’ll (probably) get one, but ask Gay for a list of book remendatns and she’ll give you a genre-hoppg digt of lerature that registers pretty much across the board on the high-low culture matrix.
HOW IS A MARE BASE LIKE A GOTHIC NOVEL? ASK A ROXANE GAY-ANOTED BUT THOR
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” A ton of those piec me out after he scribed g Twter as “like wrg a novel whout the letter P, ” and all of them said he was out of touch, a lame du who jt didn’t get , yadda yadda Here To BuyWhat set Gay’s piece apart was that she criqued Franzen for ignorg somethg important — wrers who aren’t as succsful as Franzen need Twter to promote their books, munite wh their fellow thors, and build a lerary work. Gay’s bt advice about social media is to chill the F out.
“Do somethg where you are willg to show that you give a damn, however you terpret givg a damn, ” Gay wr. '”The Hairp: "Adventur wh UPS Man"Those who follow Gay on Twter will know that she has an ongog flirtatn wh her UPS Man (whom she has sce moved away om — oh, the humany!
” Gay bemoans the lack of real, reprentative exampl of young adult women we have on televisn and the movi, referencg the new-at-the-time first season of Girls.