Life, Writing, and Real Talk with Roxane Gay

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Roxane Gay is an award-winning pop culture powerhouse whose writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others.

She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects.

We are going deep in this episode on a broad range of topics including:

Roxane’s early writing career and her first big break
We unpack Roxane's creative process and what inspires her
How she mastered so many different types of writing
And of course we get into racism in America, media literacy, activism, burn out, self care, and much much more.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Some of the guests that we have on this show, we book out so far in advance, in part because of scheduling and interfacing my schedule with the guests.
0:17.2	And there's always a lot going on.
0:19.5	And yet, in this particular episode,
0:22.1	I could not have planned this better.
0:26.5	Our guest today, not only is she an absolute genius creator,
0:33.7	successful in so many different genre as a writer.
0:38.1	But she's also incredibly tuned in, well-spoken, connected to so much of the tension that is
0:49.6	happening in the United States right now, and actually around the world.
0:57.7	This bestselling, award-winning pop culture powerhouse, Roxanne Gay's writing appears in the best American mystery stories for
1:05.8	2014, the best American short stories in 2012, the best sex writing in 2012, a public space, McSweeney's
1:14.0	Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and so many others.
1:21.2	She's a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, the author of books A Yidi,
1:25.9	An Untamed State, The New York Times bestselling bad feminist,
1:29.7	the national bestseller, Difficult Women, and Hunger, her also New York Times bestselling
1:35.5	memoir. Not to mention, she's also the author of the World of Wakanda for Marvel Comics.
1:43.1	Several books forthcoming, also working on television and film,
1:47.0	which we get to hear a little bit about those things. My guest, of course, is the inimitable
1:51.7	Roxanne Gaye, and we are going deep in this episode. I want to tell you a couple things we cover.
2:00.3	We start off with her life arc,
2:03.3	early, early career, her first break. And she reveals something that I think is so insightful
2:10.3	about early success in any career creator's journey, something that is often understood by the folks who have tread
2:20.8	through these waters and often misunderstood or misinterpreted for folks who have yet to reach that.
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