Roxane Gay: 2017 National Book Festival

Roxane Gay discusses "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body" and "Difficult Women" at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Professor and writer Roxane Gay is best known for her feminist works, such as "Bad Feminist." Time magazine called the book, "a manual on how to be human." Gay told the magazine: "I'm very much trying to show how feminism influences my life for better or worse. It just shows what it's like to move through the world as a woman. It's not even about feminism per se, it's about humanity and empathy." Gay's latest collection of stories is "Difficult Women" and her most recent book is "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body" (HarperCollins). In the memoir she writes, "I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe.... I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe."
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