Article accompanying podcast interview with Mia Freedman detailed preparations website said it made to accommodate ‘imposing’ US authorThe US author Roxane Gay has labelled the Australian website Mamamia “cruel and humiliating” for publishing a podcast interview with text that asked whether she would “fit into the office lift”. Gay, the award-winner author of Bad Feminist, said she was “appalled by Mamamia” after the interview she gave to the site’s co-founder and creative director, Mia Freedman, while promoting her new book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Related: Sydney writers' festival: 'catastrophic' Trump looms large for Roxane Gay I am appalled by Mamamia. It was a shit show. I can walk a fucking mile. https://t.co/14RNv2Ig0B"Can she fit into the lift?" Shame on you @Mamamia https://t.co/14RNv2Ig0BIt is cruel and humiliating. https://t.co/XY2AU0XPFG Related: From Roxane Gay to Arundhati Roy: literary highlights for Australia in June Ok I can't keep this in. I just did an interview w/ someone who read Hunger and they said "we did a bunch of special things to accommodate.....you. Like. Am I supposed to be grateful you provided a sturdy chair? Why would you tell me this? Is it that arduous? Come on.Fucking gobsmacked. As a fat woman who used to work there and tried daily to make them understand this stuff... I am so sorry I failed.Whatever. Just what the fuck ever. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2017-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#arundhati roy
#literary highlights
Article accompanying podcast interview with Mia Freedman detailed preparations website said it made to accommodate ‘imposing’ US authorThe US author Roxane Gay has labelled the Australian website Mamamia “cruel and humiliating” for publishing a podcast interview with text that asked whether she... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#arundhati roy
#literary highlights
OPINION: Roxane Gay's latest book is out today, and while the celebrated feminist author admits she expected the publicity for Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body to be a bit of a minefield, I doubt she expected it to go so wrong, so quickly. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roxane gay
For many at Winter Institute, Roxane Gay’s opening keynote, which called on booksellers to step up their role in providing sanctuary, set the tone for one of the most political and energizing bookseller gatherings in recent memory. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#full text
#bad feminist
#winter institute
#roxane gay
#opening keynote
#recent memory
Two writers known for their bold explorations of personal experience on two of the authors that have shaped their work. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roxane gay
#marguerite duras
#kaveh akbar
#personal experience
Here are the books 11 of the biggest and most interesting book clubs have chosen as their picks for June 2023, including Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-06-15 10:36:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roxane gay
#book club
Incensed by an opinion piece, Lachlan Murdoch came at Crikey with guns blazing. But in the end he walked away – for the second time in a weekFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAs Lachlan Murdoch’s day... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-04-21 15:00:46 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#lachlan murdoch
#guardian australia
#free morning
#opinion piece
#latest updatesget
#free app
#witness stand
#5m settlement
#defamation lawsuit
#federal court
#news corp
On Sundays, author Roxane Gay explores her favorite L.A. book shops, art galleries and movie theater with comfy seats. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-12-11 13:00:46 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#movie theater
#bookstore
The reality show format offers amateurs and unknowns a chance to display their latent talent and work with mentors to nurture it in a competition charged with tension. Could the format work for writers, too? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#great author
Roxane Gay is not just an acclaimed writer, she’s a champion of writers: she’s edited The Best American Short Stories, founded Gay Magazine, and launched the Audacious Book Club to promote reading and discussion of powerful new literary voices. Now, she’s continuing her curatorial work by... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-05-26 14:50:24 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roxane gay
#grove atlantic
#acclaimed writer
#promote reading
#literary voices
#book club
Roxane Gay Books will focus on underrepresented fiction, nonfiction and memoir writers, with or without agents. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-05-26 09:00:15 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#grove atlantic
#memoir writers
#memoir
#publishing imprint
The author of 70 novels translated into 29 languages, Valerie Parv has passed away just before her 70th birthday. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2021-04-30 05:02:04 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#70th birthday
#australian author
She campaigned against female genital mutilation and wrote more than 50 novels, plays, story collections and nonfiction books. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-23 09:59:11 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#story collections
#nonfiction books
Some good news to close out the year! Recently, Roxane Gay announced on Twitter that she’s starting a book club, and anyone can participate. The Audacious Book Club will span at least one year, and the reading list for 2021 has already been finalized: Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew, Black... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-12-21 15:31:37 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roxane gay
#jenna wortham
#kimberly drew
#book club
Between 1,500 and 2,000 members of the North American literary world signed an open letter offering support to trans and nonbinary communities. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-10-09 21:31:58 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roxane gay
#literary world
A reader on how Roxane Gay's memoir HUNGER helped her overcome a fear of writing about her partial paralysis and disability within Black feminism. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-05-06 10:39:34 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roxane gay
#black feminism
#memoir
Inside a packed room in Culver City on Thursday, Myriam Gurba, Roxane Gay and other writers of color talked about "American Dirt," Macmillan and the "crisis" in U.S. publishing. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-07 21:39:43 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roxane gay
#myriam gurba
#american dirt
#macmillan
From the fog of a so-far-extremely-cursed 2020, do you even remember 2019 anymore? The albino panda? 30 to 50 feral hogs? The US women’s national soccer team at the World Cup? What else even happened? Roxane Gay is here to remind us with this recap, which also lists her favorite books of the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-02-06 16:40:23 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#roxane gay
#world cup
#favorite book
The author’s latest comic book endeavor adapts a short story, “The Sacrifice of Darkness,” from her 2017 collection “Difficult Women.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-01-24 18:30:05 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#short story
#comic book
Authors including Joanna Harris and Richard Flanagan are raising money for firefighters battling bushfires in Australia by offering signed books, illustrations, experiences and writers' services in a Twitter auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-06 19:12:57 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#raising money
An interest in ‘how women reframe stories in a feminist framework’ and more was part of the discussion in a Market Focus Indonesia panel at the London Book Fair earlier this month. Editor’s Note: As we look today at comments from women authors, particularly in the Indonesian market, we’d like to... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#authors talk
#women authors
#international women