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it's really beautiful jake stated what i struggle you know it was incredible you know it's like your. Jesus, what I struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listing. Just one person at just one time. Right. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is the program. This is the situation. Today's guest is Roxanne Gay. She's the author of a debut collection called A E.T. And I know I'm probably mispronouncing it. It's spelled A-Y-I-T-I. And it's like the official indigenous word for Haiti, the island nation of Haiti. I believe that's correct. That's the name of her book, IET. And it's a

collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, a veritable smorgasbord, if you will. And it's available

now from artistically declined press. So what else can I say about Roxanne? Well, she's been published

in a ton of anthologies, too many to mention, and she teaches, and she's a college professor,

a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. She's the co-editor of Pank Magazine.

She's the fiction editor at Blue Stem. And she's also a regular contributor at HTML Giant.

So if you spend any time at all online in the world of independent literature, she's sort of ubiquitous.

That's how I came to know of her just from being online, reading online literature,

and constantly seeing the name Roxanne Gay everywhere I went.

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