![]() ![]() ![]() It is a book about the human process, which is messy and multifaceted, rather than clean and simple. With all that going on, Gay recently released Hunger, an unconventional memoir that rejects the common narrative of triumph to instead tell a story without a straightforward ending. This is her fourth book in three years, and that doesn’t count the series she writes for Marvel or any of the other projects she’s juggling, including her teaching career at Purdue University as Associate Professor of English. Her work ethic is also something to behold. ![]() Through her fiction, articles, tweets, TED Talk and more, she has helped lead discussion we need to be having in 2017 on everything from race, pop culture, police violence against people of color, gender, sexual assault and more. Since the release of her 2014 essay collection Bad Feminist, Gay has gone on to become one of the leading voices in the American conversation. “But that is what told me this is what I should be writing.” I just didn’t want to do it,” Roxane Gay tells Rolling Stone. “Writing about the body is a very vulnerable thing. ![]()
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