Roxane Gay Lnch Newsletter, Book Club | Kirk Reviews

Contents:

• WE SAT DOWN WH ROXANE GAY TO TALK ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND SOUL MAT
• JODI PIULT’S NEW NOVEL REVIEWED BY ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY: BY THE BOOK
• A REVIEW OF “HUNGER” BY ROXANE GAY
• BT BOOKS OF 2014: ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY LNCH NEWSLETTER, BOOK CLUB
• THE FIRST THREE BOOKS OM ROXANE GAY’S IMPRT HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED.
• ROXANE GAY MASTERCLASS REVIEW
• ROXANE GAY

WE SAT DOWN WH ROXANE GAY TO TALK ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND SOUL MAT

" Roxane Gay asks. 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.

JODI PIULT’S NEW NOVEL REVIEWED BY ROXANE GAY

We're still a place society where havg a fat person do that is Gay: Very much so, bee people thk that when you're fat, you're sexls and oftentim genrls, and that you don't have a sex life of any kd, that people don't see you as the men on Twter who are sultg me all day, they genuely seem to thk that I'm jt stg my hoe by myself.

And I don't here to listen to the full terview wh Roxane Gay on LGBTQ&A. I tst that the next time she wr about race — and I do hope there is a next time — she’ll wre about ways that will also be pellg for the rt of Gay’s new story llectn, “Difficult Women, ” will be published January.

ROXANE GAY: BY THE BOOK

Come look at the eak, the movie beckons.Roxane Gay is the Gloria Steem endowed chair at Rutgers Universy, the thor of the forthg “Opns” and a ntributg Opn wrer. @RGay A versn of this article appears prt on  , Sectn A, Page 18 of the New York edn wh the headle: The Cel Spectacle of ‘The Whale’.

A REVIEW OF “HUNGER” BY ROXANE GAY

A versn of this article appears prt on, Page 7 of the Sunday Book Review wh the headle: Roxane Gay. Wrten by Roxane Gay, the thor of Difficult Women, Hunger is a personal and harrowg tale that tails her stggle wh weight and how has impacted her childhood, teens, and twenti. In the begng, she opens up wh the stggle of alg wh her “wildly undiscipled” body and how she claims she is “trapped a ge” (Gay 17) bee of the rape she suffered when she was twelve years old.

BT BOOKS OF 2014: ROXANE GAY

So, she turned to food as a fort, gag more and more weight bee “[If] I [Gay] felt unsirable, then I uld keep more hurt away” (Gay 15).

ROXANE GAY LNCH NEWSLETTER, BOOK CLUB

Me is, simply, a te story” (Gay 4).

This novel really helped me to unrstand Gay’s stggl ways I never would have imaged. Gay’s trma plays a very large role her stggle wh her body, and a way this memoir puts you to her body and mak you feel all of her imperfectns.

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

Like Tiara I also felt as if I uld better unrstand her pot of view when Gay went to tail about her trma.

She looks at her body as a nstant physil remr of the trma she endured: “The past is wrten on my [Gay’s] body.

I rry every sgle day, ” (Gay 41).

ROXANE GAY MASTERCLASS REVIEW

“Those boys treated me [Gay] like nothg so I beme nothg, ” (Gay 45). However, wasn’t until high school that she learned that “beg raped wasn’t my [Gay’s] flt, ” (Gay 71). Yet, even wh this new possibily of healg we see that Gay don’t see herself beg able to tly heal.

ROXANE GAY

Gay’s trma beg a key factor for her weight ga is very tune wh current social issu.

Whout unrstandg Gay’s mental stggl over most of her life we wouldn’t really be able to see how that has shaped who she is. Eatg was Gay’s pg mechanism and not a rult of beg lazy. In a world where girls are told to drs more nservatively to avoid harassment om boys, Gay’s adolcent self took that one step further and changed her body to protect herself.