Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist, was published in 2014 to widespread acclaim it discussed both cultural and political issues and was a New York Times best-seller. She launched a book club on HBO’s Vice News Tonight in July 2019. She started her newsletter The Audacity, in January 2021 featuring essays by herself and upcoming writers on a bi-weekly basis and is also home to The Audacious Book Club, which features each book each month highlighting new works from underrepresented American writers.
– How to Be Heard (2017) Roxane Gay Book Club – Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (2018) She described the book as a testimony of “what it’s like to stay in a globe that tried to discipline unruly bodies.” This memoir gained wide acclaim, praised by critics as “remarkable… ferociously honest,” “arresting and candid,” and “intimate and vulnerable.” Roxane Gay Books Over the book, Roxane discusses her experience with weight, body image, as well as building a positive relationship with food, particularly after her experience as a childhood victim of sexual violence. She is the author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was published in June 2017.
John Podhoretz -columnist Roxane Gay Hunger David E Sanger -national security correspondent
