Roxane Gay

`I'm human, full of contradictions, and a feminist.' Bad Feminist is collection of frank, funny, whip-smart and spot-on essays from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay (@rgay).

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father's Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The...

A cultural examination of the ways in which the media influences self-perception, and discusses how society still needs to do better.

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year's Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.

This collection of first-person essays selected and edited by the author of Bad Feminist discusses rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment with contributions from Ally Sheedy, Gabrielle Union, Amy Jo Burns, Claire Schwartz, and Bob Shacochis. Original. 75,000 first printing.

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life.

The powerful debut collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience from New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, now widely available for the first time in Grove Press paperback.

Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection....

The author reflects on her emotional and psychological struggles to explore women's anxieties over consumption, appearance, and health.

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.

Describes the political campaigns, protests, formation of women's publishing houses, groundbreaking magazines and other contributions that helped women around the world mobilize into the feminist revolution that began in 1966.

A national bestseller from the ?prolific and exceptionally insightful? (Globe and Mail) Roxane Gay, Difficult Women is a collection of stories of rare force that paints a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America....

The author of Bad Feminist reflects on her emotional and psychological struggles to explore women's anxieties over consumption, appearance and health. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. AB. K. LJ. NYT. PW.

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year's Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.

A lively and accessible book for teens on the history, theories, debates and daily realities of feminism explains how it manifests in private and professional environments today, in a reference that also discusses the important contributions of such leading activists as Gloria Steinem, Frida Kahlo and Malala Yousafzai. Original.

From New York Times best-selling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. Originally published by a small press, this edition will make Gay's debut widely available for the first time, including several new stories. ...

These indelible images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library's archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies.

"A collection of stories of ... hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection"--