16 5 / 2012
Wipe Your Feet: "Girls" is from Mars, Women are from Venus
I like that Girls exists. I like its style, I like Jemima Kirke in general, I like women who make things that aren’t cute, I like seeing regular-looking naked people, and I like anything that reminds me of “Scotty Doesn’t Know.” I also don’t enjoy watching Girls, even though in theory it’s…
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15 5 / 2012
Late Night Library: Late Night Conversation: Roxane Gay
Welcome to the second installment of Late Night Conversation, Late Night Library’s podcast series featuring writers, editors, publishers, activists, educators, and other innovators who influence art culture.
This podcast features a conversation between writers Karen Munro and Roxane Gay. At…
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15 5 / 2012
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07 4 / 2012
What Naomi Says, by xTx
They didn’t find the body until weeks later. Its hands chewed off, the rest of it torn through like an old sheet. Naomi said it smelled exactly like death should.
I ate the peach just pulled from the fridge. Its juice ran down my chin, cold, like, “Wake up chin! Wake up!”
My silence, my chewing, just made Naomi talk more. I learned things I didn’t want to. Things people reading the newspaper would never know. I thought of a giant mother hiding the eyes of its thousands of children. I thought, my life should have so many hands.
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04 4 / 2012
ayiti353 asked: Hello Roxane! We are in Rae Paris's ENG 353 class and we are doing a presentation on your book, "Ayiti." Our Tumblr is dedicated to the book and a part of our final project. Would you be all right if we were to send you some questions we'd like you to answer for our blog? Answers can be as brief or in depth as you want. We really would love firsthand contribution from you! Thank you!
Yes, you can send me some questions. My email address is roxane at roxanegay.com
12 3 / 2012
Kate Spencer: A Response to Julia Allison's Op-Ed Addressed To Women Moving To NYC, From A Woman Who Once Moved To NYC
[Warning: TLDR]
Tonight on Twitter I stumbled upon Julia Allison’s NY Post op-ed titled “A warning to a new generation of women — don’t let ‘Sex and the City’ ruin your life.” (Co-written with her friend Julia Price.) At first I was like “huh,” and then I skimmed it and was like “UGH,” and…
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23 2 / 2012
Ashanti Performs Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing”
ABSOLUTELY NOT, ASHANTI.
NO.
GO BACK TO BEING KILLED BY ZOMBIE BIRDS (best scene EVAR).
NO THIS BITCH DID NOT.
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11 2 / 2012
Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.”
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30 11 / 2011
A 48-Hour Poem by Roxane Gay
When we learned that Terry W. Thompson, of Zanesville, Ohio, released his menagerie of animals and committed suicide last month, we asked for poems written within 48 hours in response to the tragedy. One submission came from author Roxane Gay. Her poem:
Animals, they say,
are best kept in cages.
Wild things though, know
a cage is nothing
but steel on which
they can sharpen
their teeth.
Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest.
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14 8 / 2011
Recent Google Queries
Topics of interest for new novel—computer programming, the habits of coders, Internet startups, wind farms, West Texas, gulf oil rigs, surrogacy, Chuck E. Cheese, motel lodging, knife sales, Boston.
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