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From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple, and this is Hello Monday, a show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

Roxanne Gay had her first breakout segment. work is changing us.

Roxanne Gay had her first breakout success

as a writer when she was 40.

By then, she'd been writing every day

for the better part of three decades.

I just wrote so much, and I was the only one that took myself

seriously and I met with quite a lot of rejection and rightly so like looking

back at that work it was not ready for the world but I was ready for the world.

That first book that took off for her was bad feminist. It made her into a feminist hero and all the work that

she's done since.

The novels, the memoirs, the comic books,

well they've elevated her to the status of a literary rock star.

Roxanne's writing is on point.

She's funny and vulnerable and powerful. The writing itself is confident. It demands that we take her seriously.

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