“One of our sharpest new culture critics plants her flag in topics ranging from trigger warnings to Orange is the New Black in this timely collection of essays.” “Feisty, whip-smart essays on gender, sexuality, and race.” A New York Times best-seller, Bad Feminist establishes Gay as one of our foremost cultural critics and feminist thinkers.” “There has never been a book quite like Bad Feminist-a sometimes funny, sometimes serious pop-culture-literary-nonfiction-social-commentary hybrid written by a black woman in America. If you’re interested in critical thinking about culture, this book is a must.” An author who filters every observation through her deep sense of the world as fractured, beautiful, and complex.” Perfectly imperfect, Gay is an unforgettable voice, coming at just the right time.” At its best, the book offers Gay’s distinctive voice as both shield and a weapon against social norms just begging for examination.
This best-selling collection of essays manages to be both a cultural biography and a deeply personal story of identity. “It’s no surprise that Roxane Gay-author, essayist and sharp observer of everything in pop culture we’re supposed to be too cool to like-has written such a winning book. The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.īad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better, coming from one of our most interesting and important cultural critics. In these funny and insightful essays, Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman ( Sweet Valley High) of color ( The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years ( Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” - Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?Ī collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generation The New York Times estimates that before the #MeToo movement Allen’s memoir would have instigated a six- or seven-figure bidding war.“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture.
Last year filmmaker and comedian Woody Allen pitched a memoir to publishing houses and was met with disinterest many publishers said it would be “toxic" to work with him. “You will find yourself in a poem and you will feel a connection to it that’s more beautiful than you can imagine.” Minnesota high school senior Isabella Callery on winning the 2019 Poetry Out Loud National Championship. ( Guardian)Īt the Margins, Kazim Ali pays tribute to the poet, novelist, and critic Meena Alexander for tackling “that terrifying condition of the human heart in the most universal of terms.” “The meaning of a book is to awaken you, to make you feel alive, to make you open your eyes and look at human beings differently.” Novelist Leïla Slimani joins Hanya Yanagihara, Bret Easton Ellis, and other writers in sharing the purpose of their novels’ shock value. The festival’s lineup features more than two hundred writers and intellectuals, including Jennifer Egan, Masha Gessen, Marlon James, and Arundhati Roy. This year’s PEN World Voices Festival kicks off on Monday. ( Publishers Weekly)īaltimore mayor Catherine Pugh has resigned in the wake of the scandal surrounding her self-published children’s books. Pugh is under investigation for receiving roughly $500,000 from the University of Maryland Medical System, where she was a board member until March, for copies of her Healthy Holly books. Tsiang, East Goes West by Younghill Kang, No-No Boy by John Okada, and America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan will each be published with an introduction by a contemporary Asian American author, including Alexander Chee and Elaine Castillo. To coincide with Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, Penguin Classics will add four novels by Asian American writers to its line this May. We will have fun.” Roxane Gay has launched Gay Magazine, an online publishing platform that will feature writing about culture, politics, and more.
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