The first three books om Roxane Gay’s imprt have been announced. ‹ Lerary Hub

Contents:

• THE FIRST THREE BOOKS OM ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED.
• ‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN

THE FIRST THREE BOOKS OM ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED.

Hollars, Roxane Gay!, Marcia Aldrich, Ryan Van Meter, Bonnie J. Eight months after the lnch of Roxane Gay Books, an imprt of Grove Atlantic seekg to publish “betifully wrten, provotive, telligent, [risky]” wrg, Roxane Gay Books has announced s first list: will publish three novels 2023, om Ani Kayo Somtochwu, J. Said Gay herself, “I’ve always had eclectic taste readg and the first slate of tl for Roxane Gay Books reflects that and my love of powerful storytellg, unique narrative voice, and betiful wrg.

‘I’LL ALWAYS BE A BAD FEMIST!’: ROXANE GAY ON LOVE, SUCCS – AND UPSETTG PIERS MAN

Th was Roxane Gay propelled to the lerary stratosphere and – as such fairytal tend to go – sted to be forever after probed about the current state of, ne years on, do the wrer, edor, profsor, podster, cultural cric, and Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi at Rutgers Universy, New Jersey, still nsir herself a bad femist? “I thk I’m a better femist now than I was, ” says Gay when we meet on Zoom.

”It is mid-morng New York and Gay, 48, is drkg a takeaway cup of ffee the eav of the brownstone hoe she shar wh her wife Debbie Millman. “I am a wonrful marriage, ” Gay tells me. ”As an terviewee, Gay keeps her distance.

Such quali are too often terpreted as ldns or ferocy women, but the abidg imprsn Gay giv is of someone who is not gog to promise herself. ”Last year Gay argued that ncel culture “is the bogeyman that people have e up wh to expla away bad behavur” and she prefers to thk terms of nsequence culture. ”In Bad Femist, Gay admted listeng to “thuggish rap … even though the lyrics are gradg to women and offend me to my re”.