Roxane Gay
Auteur de Bad Feminist: Essays
A propos de l'auteur
Roxane Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: Essays, the novel An Untamed State, the story collection Ayiti, and her memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Her work has also appeared in Glamour, Best American Short Stories, and the New York Times Book Review. She won the PEN afficher plus Center USA's 2015 Freedom to Write Award. The annual award is presented to individuals or organisations for 'producing notable work in the face of extreme adversity' or showing 'exceptional courage in the defense of free expression. In 2018, she was presented the Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature by the Lambda Literery Awards. She also won the Bisexual Nonfiction award for her memoir Hunger. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Roxane Gay
The Best American Short Stories 2018 (2018) — Directeur de publication — 266 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Girl Crush: Women's Erotic Fantasies (2010) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
The Year I Learned Everything 4 exemplaires
North Country and Other Stories 1 exemplaire
Broads {short story} 1 exemplaire
Unruly Bodies 1 exemplaire
The Banks #1 1 exemplaire
Feminism & The Strict Ideals for a Feminist 1 exemplaire
North Country 1 exemplaire
A Cool Dry Place 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Contributeur — 185 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributeur — 143 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (2010) — Contributeur — 135 exemplaires, 26 critiques
Does Your Mama Know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (1997) — Contributeur — 124 exemplaires, 1 critique
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (2019) — Contributeur — 90 exemplaires, 1 critique
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributeur — 79 exemplaires
Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World (2018) — Contributeur — 77 exemplaires
Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them (2014) — Contributeur — 74 exemplaires, 3 critiques
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival (2019) — Introduction — 53 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era (2019) — Introduction — 53 exemplaires
Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions (2008) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Best Actress: The History of Oscar®-Winning Women (2019) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 17 exemplaires, 1 critique
Get Out of My Crotch! Twenty-One Writers Respond to America's War on Women's Rights and Reproductive Health (2013) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Radicals, Volume 1: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama: Audacious Writings by American Women, 1830-1930 (Volume 1) (2021) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 3 exemplaires
Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1974-10-15
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Études
- Michigan Technological University (PhD|2010)
- Professions
- university professor
teacher of creative writing
public intellectual
writer
editor - Organisations
- Purdue University
Eastern Illinois University
New York Times
Hear to Slay (podcast) - Agent
- Maria Massie
Membres
Discussions
Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist à Reading Books by Women (Août 2016)
Bad Feminist à Feminist Theory (Janvier 2015)
Critiques
Listes
Overdue Podcast (1)
Black Authors (2)
First Novels (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Female Author (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 34
- Aussi par
- 37
- Membres
- 10,271
- Popularité
- #2,312
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 430
- ISBN
- 149
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 17
On a second note, if you’re someone who is related to, in love with, married to, or friends with someone who is fat/obese/overweight (whatever you want to call it), you need to read this. I am not overweight, but there are people in my life whom I love with all my heart that either are or were at one time. There are concerns and humiliations and feelings I knew about from being close with them, but Gay opened my eyes to the fact that I only see the tip of the iceberg. How many times have I said something or done something insensitive and not realized? This is how change starts. With honesty. Then learning from that honesty and responding with compassion. If I take one thing away from this book it’s that. More compassion for myself and my own hunger (which I may not satiate with food, but trust me I have my vices) and hopefully more consideration for others.… (plus d'informations)