New Releases by Roxane Gay

Lee Child''s street corner. Gary Shteyngart''s bed. Joyce Carol Oates''s classroom. Roxane Gay''s dream house. Billy Collins''s New York City. Aimee Mann and Jonathan Coulton''s kitchen. Valeria Luiselli''s writing desk. Sloane Crosley''s conference call. Alain Mabanckou''s Department of Human Resources. Jonathan Ames''s shrink''s office. Jonathan Safran Foer''s Genius Bar. Joshua Ferris''s America.What do these places have in common? More than might initially meet the eye. They''re the spaces¿real or imagined¿where thirteen remarkably talented and original voices do their work. These writers, poets, and singer-songwriters come together to give us a guided tour through the places that inspire them. There''s mystery here. Dark confessions. Office crushes. Tales of deals made, careers built and broken, and the love and dread and hope of being at work.Everyone works someplace. This group of authors has created a place that is by turns hilarious, illuminating, shocking, wonderful. It might make you cry. It will certainly make you laugh. And you might never see your own office in the same (fluorescent?) light again.

Roxane Gay heeft in de afgelopen jaren openhartige en populaire essays en blogs geschreven over feminisme en het menselijk lichaam. Haar eigen emotionele en psychologische worstelingen geven haar een unieke inkijk in het spanningsveld tussen verlangen en ontkenning, troost en medelijden. Met Honger onderzoekt ze haar eigen verleden - waaronder een uiterst gewelddadige gebeurtenis in haar jeugd die een keerpunt in haar leven vormde - en betrekt ze de lezer op indringende wijze in haar poging om zichzelf beter te begrijpen, om uiteindelijk haar eigen leven te kunnen redden. Met haar kenmerkende eerlijkheid, kwetsbaarheid en kracht schrijft Gay over haar lichaam en haar overgewicht.

Nesta autobiografia escrita com sinceridade impressionante, a autora best-seller Roxane Gay fala sobre como, após sofrer um abuso sexual aos doze anos, passou a utilizar seu próprio corpo como um esconderijo contra os seus piores medos. Ao comer compulsivamente para afastar os olhares alheios, por anos Roxane guardou sua história apenas para si. Até conceber este livro. Esta não é uma narrativa bem-sucedida de perda de peso. E este também não é um livro que Roxane gostaria de escrever. Entretanto, é uma história que precisa ser contada, e ela o faz com seu estilo contundente e impetuoso, ainda que dotado de um humor mordaz, características que a tornaram uma das vozes mais marcantes de sua geração. "Fome" é um relato ousado, doloroso e arrebatador.

Fille de l''un des hommes les plus riches d''Haïti, Mireille Duval Jameson mène une vie confortable aux Etats-Unis. Mais alors qu''elle est en vacances à Port-au-Prince avec son mari Michael et leur bébé Christophe, Mireille est kidnappée. Ses ravisseurs réclament un million de dollars à son père. Pourtant, ce dernier refuse de payer la rançon, convaincu que toutes les femmes de sa famille seraient alors enlevées les unes après les autres. Pendant treize jours, Mireille vit un cauchemar. Son ravisseur, dit le commandant, est d''une cruauté sans nom. Comment survivre dans de telles conditions et, une fois libérée, comment surmonter le traumatisme, pardonner à son père et recréer une intimité avec son mari ? Mireille et les siens vont pourtant réussir à reprendre pied et découvrir que la rédemption peut revêtir les formes les plus inattendues.

Fille de l’un des hommes les plus riches d’Haïti, Mireille Duval Jameson mène une vie confortable aux États-Unis. Mais alors qu’elle est en vacances à Port-au-Prince avec son mari Michael et leur bébé Christophe, Mireille est kidnappée. Ses ravisseurs réclament un million de dollars à son père. Pourtant, ce dernier refuse de payer la rançon, convaincu que toutes les femmes de sa famille seraient alors enlevées les unes après les autres. Pendant treize jours, Mireille vit un cauchemar. Son ravisseur, dit le commandant, est d’une cruauté sans nom. Comment survivre dans de telles conditions et, une fois libérée, comment surmonter le traumatisme, pardonner à son père et recréer une intimité avec son mari ? Mireille et les siens vont pourtant réussir à reprendre pied et découvrir que la rédemption peut revêtir les formes les plus inattendues.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.

La lucha por los derechos de las mujeres ha tomado el mundo por asalto, pero �por qu� muchas de sus simpatizantes caen en tantas contradicciones? �Por qu� parece haber tantas malas feministas? Roxane Gay, profesora universitaria, colaboradora de The New York Times, ensayista y novelista con m�s de un mill�n de visitas en su charla TED sobre feminismo, tiene algunas respuestas a esas preguntas. La pluma de Gay, filosa como una catana, explora la cultura pop para extraer verdades inc�modas acerca de c�mo somos representados en el cine, la televisi�n y la literatura. Con un estilo a veces �cido y corrosivo, otras �ntimo y personal, pero siempre potente y cr�tico, Roxane atraviesa el entretenimiento masivo: desde Cincuenta sombras de Grey hasta Los juegos del hambre; sin olvidar a Quentin Tarantino y Orange is The New Black, para rescatar valiosas lecciones e inc�modas verdades sobre la discriminaci�n, el privilegio y la frustraci�n de querer un mundo m�s justo. Sus ensayos no exigen la credencial de �feminista� para ser le�dos. Son una invitaci�n abierta a analizar el entorno en el que estamos inmersos bajo la promesa de que, despu�s de leerlos, creer�s firmemente que, como dice la propia Roxane, �tenemos el derecho al mismo respeto�. �Es incompatible querer ser independiente y a la vez ansiar que cuiden de ti, que te gusta la m�sica reggaeton pero te revuelva por dentro lo machista de algunas de sus letras?

Roxane Gay (@rgay) is one of the most-listened to young cultural observers. She has become an important voice for a generation, writing about the urgent issues of the day, from feminism and modern marriage, to television and police brutality. No matter the topic, her voice is clear, powerful and always honest. How to Be Heard is full of advice that anyone pursuing a creative life will find fascinating and useful: *You can be a writer if you want to (as long as you actually write). *If you''re a woman, gay or a person of colour, there are probably more barriers. Know this. Be relentless any way. Strive for excellence. Learn how to kick the shit out of those barriers but don''t assume every failure is about your identity because it isn''t. *Accept that sometimes cream does rise to the top and hard work will eventually get noticed. *Learn to deal with rejection. You don''t have to like it. The creative life involves rejection far more than acceptance. It''s easier if you can accept that early on. After delving into the writing life, Gay looks at what is required to succeed in any creative endeavour. Woven throughout are her personal anecdotes and insights on using your voice, being heard and knowing how to listen. How to Be Heard is about finding a voice that is uniquely yours and making sure you are heard when it truly matters.

The New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist shares a collection of stories about hardscrabble lives, passionate loves and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister’s marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Roxanne Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America with her “signature wry wit and piercing psychological depth” (Harper’s Bazaar).

本书分享了作者对世俗文化的精辟分析,推翻了社会对女性主义的刻板印象,反对将女性主义视为负面贬抑的标签.

Uma vez, numa terra distante, fui raptada... Mantiveram-me em cativeiro durante treze dias. Queriam vergar-me. Não era pessoal. Não fui vergada. É o que digo a mim mesma. Mireille Duval Jameson é a caprichosa filha de um dos homens mais ricos do Haiti. Vive comodamente nos Estados Unidos com o marido e o filho. É privilegiada, amada, altiva. Um estado de graça que terá um fim abrupto. De férias no Haiti, é raptada por um grupo cujo líder abomina tudo o que a família Duval representa. Num país onde a miséria grassa e os raptos são frequentes, Mireille espera, imperturbável, que o pai pague o resgate. Mas o pai dela tem convicções fortes, que não incluem ceder à chantagem de criminosos oriundos de um mundo que despreza. Na luta de poder que se segue, o corpo de Mireille servirá de escudo e de moeda de troca. Ela terá de se refugiar em si mesma e na esperança de um desenlace rápido. Mas à medida que os dias passam, torna-se cada vez mais claro que o resgate não será pago... “Um livro magistral, intenso, inquietante e único. Jamais o esquecerei.” Meg Wolitzer, autora de Os Interessantes Roxane Gay é escritora, professora, editora, blogger e comentadora. Leciona Inglês na Purdue University, é fundadora da Tiny Hardcore Press, e co-editora da PANK, um coletivo das artes literárias sem fins lucrativos. Os seus trabalhos figuram nas mais prestigiadas publicações, incluindo The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times e Salon, entre muitas outras. Da sua obra destacam-se o livro de contos Ayiti e o ensaio Bad Feminist. Um Estado Selvagem é o seu primeiro romance. Roxane Gay vive atualmente em Charleston, no Illinois.

Mireille Jameson heeft haar Haïtiaanse afkomst ver achter zich gelaten. Als ze met haar Amerikaanse man en pasgeboren kind op familiebezoek gaat in Port-au-Prince, wordt ze op klaarlichte dag ontvoerd. Ze wordt gevangen gehouden door een man die zich `de commandant noemt en ze wacht tot haar vader het geëiste losgeld heeft betaald. Maar als blijkt dat hij niet van plan is te onderhandelen, wordt Mireille het slachtoffer van de extreme woede en wraakzucht van haar ontvoerders. In ongetemde staat is een krachtige literaire roman die je achterlaat met een gevoel van onmacht, maar ook met de stille hoop op een betere toekomst.

“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? A New York Times Bestseller Best Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe • Newsweek • Time Out New York • Oprah.com • Miami Herald • Book Riot • Buzz Feed • Globe and Mail (Toronto) • The Root • Shelf Awareness A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generation In these funny and insightful essays, Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better, coming from one of our most interesting and important cultural critics.

The story of Mireille Duval Jameson, a rich and self-assured Haitian woman kidnapped by a gang of heavily armed men who intend to hold her until her unwilling father pays up.

Joyland is an online literary magazine that curates fiction regionally. Praised for its unique approach by Time Out, the Atlantic, and the CBC, Joyland now brings its best stories into print with Retro Vol. 1. From writers both emerging and acclaimed come short stories about spontaneous combustion on a dance floor, love affairs with predators, a very bad day for a purchase display consultant and what happens when a man decides he wants to be pregnant. As Quill & Quire wrote, "The future of literary magazines is already here." Contributors include: James Greer, author of the novels Artificial Light (LHotB/Akashic, 2006) and The Failure (Akashic, 2010), and the non-fiction book Guided By Voices: A Brief History, a biography of a band for which he played bass guitar. He''s written movies for Lindsay Lohan, Jackie Chan, and Steven Soderbergh. Ben Loory, whose fiction has appeared in the New Yorker. His book Stories for Nighttime and Some is available from Penguin Books. Scott McClanahan, the author of Stories and Stories II (published by Six Gallery Press). His other works include Hillbilly, Stories V!, The Nightmares and Crapalachia. Zoe Whittall, the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Holding Still for as Long as Possible (House of Anansi, 2009). Kevin Wilson, the author of the collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and a novel, The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011). Roxane Gay, author and essayist for The Rumpus and HTML Giant. Margaret Wappler, who has been published in the Los Angeles Times, The Believer, Rolling Stone, Fader, Arthur Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine and Black Clock. Jim Hanas, whose work has appeared in publications like McSweeney''s, One Story, Fence, and the Land-Grant College Review. Andrew Hood, author of Pardon Our Monsters, which won the Danuta Gleed Award. Erica Lorraine who received an MA in creative writing at University of California, Davis. Her work appears in Bombay Gin, Friction 9, and Rumble. Nathan Sellyn, author of Indigenous Beasts. Ricco Siasoco, whose fiction has been published in the North American Review, Flyway Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Memorious, and the Boston Phoenix.

There is ample evidence of a longstanding and pervasive discourse positioning students, and engineering students in particular, as "bad writers." This is a discourse perpetuated within the academy, the workplace, and society at large. But what are the effects of this discourse? Are students aware faculty harbor the belief students can''t write? Is student writing or confidence in their writing influenced by the negative tone of the discourse? This dissertation attempts to demonstrate that a discourse disparaging student writing exists among faculty, across disciplines, but particularly within the engineering disciplines, as well as to identify the reach of that discourse through the deployment of two attitudinal surveys--one for students, across disciplines, at Michigan Technological University and one for faculty, across disciplines at universities and colleges both within the United States and internationally. This project seeks to contribute to a more accurate and productive discourse about engineering students, and more broadly, all students, as writers--one that focuses on competencies rather than incompetence, one that encourages faculty to find new ways to characterize students as writers, and encourages faculty to recognize the limits of the utility of practitioner lore.