The essays in Bad Feminist were first published in magazines including the American Prospect and on websites such as Salon, Jezebel and the Rumpus, and Gay has gradually built a following and a reputation. Her success is unexpected and delicious – and not only because we rarely see a woman in her late 30s, based in a tiny midwestern town, hailed as the hot new literary darling. The culprit is her second book tour in the space of a few months, which will take her from Milwaukee to New York to San Francisco. When I meet Gay at her home in Charleston, Illinois, an apartment furnished primarily with books, she is finishing an essay for the New York Times, engaging a speakers' agency to manage her schedule and struggling with mild insomnia.
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"Let this be the year of Roxane Gay," Time magazine declared, and so far it is, which appears to be both an exhilarating and exhausting experience. She is publishing two books this year – a collection of essays, Bad Feminist, and her first novel, An Untamed State, which the Washington Post described as smart and searing the Miami Herald praised her "flawless pacing". This tickles her she thinks of herself as a shy person, and when you praise her work, a self-conscious hand rises to cover her eyes and smile. Gay is 39 now, and over the last 18 years she has published countless pieces of fiction and non-fiction, only to find herself described in recent months as an overnight sensation. The year had been an adventure – a liberation, but not a resolution. Her work has appeared in Medium, the Los Angeles Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and on PBSNewsHour.Her parents eventually tracked her down – thanks, she suspects, to a private investigator – and she moved back to Nebraska to be near them, enrolling at another university to finish her studies.
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She is also the author of How to Leave Hialeah, and a forthcoming essay collection. Jennine Capó Crucet is a fiction writer, essayist, and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Her novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, won the International Latino Book Award. She is the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World, and “The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West.” Michelle Goldberg is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times covering politics, gender, religion and ideology. Roxane Gay is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, Hunger and World of Wakanda for Marvel. A contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, Gay’s writing has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
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