1/31/2024 0 Comments Nyt roxane gay hunger![]() She tells us, early on, that even at 6 ft 3in she weighed, at her biggest, a quite staggering 577 pounds ( “…at one point, that was the truth of my body.”) She says she does know and doesn’t know how it happened. Most of the struggle is in refusing to be defined by it. Hunger houses the story – or stories – of the weight that Roxane Gay has, at times, struggled with. Hunger is a memoir that addresses more than one issue – the title allowing for more than one reading of course. ![]() Through that, through finding a vice for her voice and a way to voice vice she has become a celebrity public intellectual, recognisable – important. She’s an engaging writer – and it’s interesting to find her writing with such heartbreaking poise over such heartbreaking issues here, since, it seems, she sought out the anonymity of forums – to begin with. Sometimes she blends memoir with fiction, the essay form being creatively stretched, other times she writes with such a frankness, a matter-of-factness, there’s an alacrity to her prose, it doesn’t so much dazzle but it is often (still) spellbinding, the honesty and simplicity. ![]() She’s prolific too, or it seems that way at least – online journals, fiction – long and short, essays, comic books, memoir. Roxane Gay is a very good writer – and across so many disciplines.
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