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How to Note an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a experience spent reading and writing fiction hold changed him. In these essays, he grows from trainee to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a male lover man, a Korean American,Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is a journalist, editor, and professor. She is the author of several bestselling books including Bad Feminist, Hunger, Difficult Women, and Opinions A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business. She is also the storyteller of the Eisner Award winning World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. Her short stories and essays can be found in Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Fleeting Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The Recent York Times and the editor of an eponymous imprint at Grove Atlantic. In 2018, she won a Guggenheim fellowship. She is also the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and working on several books and film and television projects. Her newsletter, The Audacity, is hosted at Substack.
Shelf Life: Roxane Gay
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Opinions by Roxane Gay
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“I have a lot of opinions and I come by them honestly,” Roxane Gay writes in the introduction to her new manual, Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business(HarperCollins). The collection features some of her most notable nonfiction pieces from the past 10 years, and there’s no shortage of topics. You’ll find everything from a Nicki Minaj profile, to an essay on the state of women’s rights post-Dobbs.
The Nebraska-born writer is most known for her 2014 essay collection Bad Feminist and 2017 memoir Hunger, the latter
The Portable Feminist Reader
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From writer and cultural critic Roxane Gay, a dynamic and strikingly relevant watch at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive
With selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices and an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Queer presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers search the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in apply, as a complex, opposite, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
About Roxane
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Roxane Gay is The Novel York Times-bestselling author of The Bad Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.