Politics and Prose will not have books or tickets available for pick up prior to the evening of the event. Gay will be in conversation with Linda Holmes, who writes and edits NPR’s entertainment and pop culture blog Monkey See and co-hosts the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour.Īll books and tickets will be available at will call at 6 p.m. Together, Hunger and Not That Bad form a nuanced and often heartbreaking look at the many challenges women confront. Most recently, she is the editor of Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, a collection of essays addressing what it means for women to live in a world that asks them to measure and rank the aggression, harassment, and violence they face. Roxane Gay, the author, is the daughter of Haitian immigrants. She's also written three works of fiction, including the nationally bestselling story collection Difficult Women, contributes to the New York Times op-ed page, and wrote World of Wakanda 1-5 for Marvel. The characters in Hunger by Roxane Gay are all people who have had a major impact on her life. She is the author of two New York Times bestselling works of nonfiction, Bad Feminist and Hunger, an intimate exploration of eating, weight, and trauma to be released in paperback in June. Roxane Gay is one of our most important cultural critics.
