Bad Feminist
If you frequent certain corners of the internet, it seemed like Roxane Gay was everywhere this summer. She released her novel An Untamed State to huge critical acclaim. I saw two different online book clubs devote their time to reading it as soon as it came out. Shortly thereafter, she released a collection of essays called Bad Feminist . Both of these books made it on to the New York Times Bestseller list. I first heard about her because I began reading The Rumpus , where she was a contributing editor, right around the time An Untamed State came out. I hadn't heard about her before, but it wasn't long before I was seeing links to her writing all over the place . Then one of my favorite sites, The Toast , announced that she would be running their first vertical starting in mid-October. I knew that I had to seek out more. I picked up Bad Feminist because it seemed easier than An Untamed State . The latter is about a women who is kidnapped, assaulted, and raped. It ...