One of the most celebrated and indispensable social commentators of our time, Roxane Gay, will share her wise, funny, and deeply empathetic vision of acceptance, identity, and how to be a human. She will be in conversation with essayist, fiction writer, and Lambda Literary Award finalist Emma Copley Eisenberg (“Fat Swim”).
Roxane Gay is a welcome and vital voice of reason, clarity, and empathy in our fraught times. Her books “Bad Feminist,” “Opinions,” and “Hunger” explore politics, feminism, race, power, and popular culture. She is also the author of two short-story collections, the Marvel Comics series “World of Wakanda,” and incisive essays in the NY Times, where she has been a longtime contributing opinion writer and author of the column “Work Friend.” She was the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers, and now publishes Roxane Gay Books at Grove Atlantic Press.
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s brash and unforgettable short-story collection “Fat Swim” is a fierce and funny dive into queerness, power, sex, and the visceral reality of bodies. It was featured recently on The New Yorker Radio Hour with David Remnick.
Tickets are $20 and include a choice of a signed copy of “Bad Feminist,” “Opinions,” or “Hunger.”