Roxane Gay on Hateful Men, Twitter, Breaking Barriers, Selling Books, Channing Tatum, and Hunger

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

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🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 448, my conversation with Roxane Gay from January 2017. Roxane Gay is the bestselling author of the books Bad Feminist, Hunger, An Untamed State, Difficult Women, and Ayiti. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She wrote The World of Wakanda, the Marvel Comics Series. She has a Substack called The Audacity, which has its own very popular book club. And this month, her publishing imprint, Roxane Gay Books, which she launched in association with Grove Atlantic, is celebrating the publication of its inaugural title, a debut novel called And Then He Sang a Lullaby, by Nigerian writer Ani Kayode Somtochukwu. I spoke with Roxane Gay as Difficult Women was being published and her memoir, Hunger, was imminent. Air date: January 11, 2017. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, folks, welcome to the program.
0:05.0	This is The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles.
0:09.0	Very nice to be with you.
0:11.0	Thank you for listening. I hope everything is okay, wherever you happen to be.
0:15.0	And I'm excited to share with you another flashback.
0:20.0	This one from episode 448, one of my conversations with
0:24.7	Roxanne Gay, bestselling author of the book's Bad Feminist, Hunger, An Untamed State, Difficult
0:34.4	Women, Aieti. Roxanne is a contributing writer for the New York Times. She wrote
0:41.5	The World of Wakanda, the Marvel Comics series. She writes for film and television. She has a
0:47.1	substack called The Audacity, which has its own very popular book club. And this month month just a few days from now very
0:56.4	exciting news her publishing imprint her very own publishing imprint Roxanne
1:01.6	gay books which she launched in association with Grove Atlantic it is
1:08.6	celebrating the publication of its inaugural title, a debut novel called
1:14.5	And Then He sang a Lullaby by Nigerian writer Annie Coyote Somtu Chukwu.
1:22.2	So a lot going on, as always, with Roxanne Gay.
1:26.4	It's hard to keep up with her.
1:29.8	She's doing so many different things. So once again, this outtake that you're about to hear comes from episode 448, which first
1:38.1	aired on January 11th, 2017. You will hear Roxanne and me talking about a variety of things including hateful
1:48.8	men online unfulfilled entitlement Twitter fear Marvel comics breaking barriers
1:56.7	selling books Channing Tatum of of course, and her book, Hunger, among other things.
2:06.9	So let's get to it.
2:09.0	This week's flashback from 2017, my conversation with Roxanne Gay.
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