and i think it s really important to have just a scale of understanding, like, what courage actually is. you are a writer and you ve written all sorts of books. you ve written fiction and nonfiction, you ve written memoir, you ve even contributed to a comic book series. mm hm. you do a podcast. i mean, you are very creative and very busy, but it would be fair to say, would it not, that one book, if one wants to understand roxane gay, one book is at the heart of it and that s hunger? would you agree with that? i think either hunger or bad feminist, but i think mostly hunger because it s my most personal book, it s my memoir. and in it, i write about my life and it s about living in a fat body in a world that is fairly inhospitable to fat bodies. and you will have a fair understanding of who i am and how i came to be the person that i am today. and it wasn t the first
and so, it s a risk every time and it s terrifying. and from the beginning of my career, i ve always just told myself, don t worry, girl, no one s going to read it. which patently is not true. it s not true. but i m still very good at telling myself that lie. and so i try to just forget that there s an audience at the other end of it, and i try to say what needs to be said for the good of the piece. i think many people see you as very brave, courageous. mm. are those words that mean anything to you? i respect why people think that, but i m terrified. i simply do it and have found the ability to tolerate fear and to tolerate discomfort. so, no, i m not brave. you know, like, brave people are actually brave and i m just a writer. and i think it s really important to have just a scale of understanding, like, what courage actually is. you are a writer and you ve written all sorts of books. you ve written fiction
written all sorts of books. you ve written fiction and nonfiction, you ve written memoir, you ve even contributed to a comic book series. mm hm. you do a podcast. i mean, you are very creative and very busy, but it would be fair to say, would it not, that one book, if one wants to understand roxane gay, one book is at the heart of it and that s hunger? would you agree with that? i think either hunger or bad feminist, but i think mostly hunger because it s my most personal book, it s my memoir. and in it, i write about my life and it s about living in a fat body in a world that is fairly inhospitable to fat bodies. and you will have a fair understanding of who i am and how i came to be the person that i am today. and it wasn t the first time you went public, very public, with the fact that you had been raped. no. ..i mean, gang raped as a 12 year old girl. yes. but it was in that book that
people are actually brave and i m just a writer. and i think it s really important to have just a scale of understanding, like, what courage actually is. you are a writer and you ve written all sorts of books. you ve written fiction and nonfiction, you ve written memoir, you ve even contributed to a comic book series. mm hm. you do a podcast. i mean, you are very creative and very busy, but it would be fair to say, would it not, that one book, if one wants to understand roxane gay, one book is at the heart of it and that s hunger? would you agree with that? i think either hunger or bad feminist, but i think mostly hunger because it s my most personal book, it s my memoir. and in it, i write about my life and it s about living in a fat body in a world that is fairly inhospitable to fat bodies. and you will have a fair understanding of who i am and how i came to be the person that i am today. and it wasn t the first time you went public,