She recently partnered with Grove Atlantic to develop an imprint, Roxane Gay Books. She has recently launched Roxane Gay Books, an imprint with Grove Atlantic. Awardwinning author and editor Roxane Gay discusses the launch of her new imprint at Grove Atlantic, part of a welcome and necessary change in publishing. Roxane Gay Event Anti-Racism and Equity Institute An Evening with. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. The Los Angeles Times says of the collection, “There’s a distinct echo of Angela Carter or Helen Oyeyemi at play dark fables and twisted morality tales sit alongside the contemporary and the realistic…” She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. But when Roxane Gay realized she was to be published on the imprint of the same publisher that recently signed Milo Yiannopoulos to a six-figure book deal, she made that disapproval quite clear. She also released her collection of short stories, Difficult Women. 4:12 PM NEW YORK Roxane Gay’s latest project is an imprint that will release the kinds of books she likes to read.
In 2017, Roxane released her bestselling memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, which was called “Luminous…intellectually rigorous, and deeply moving” by the New York Times. Feminist writer Roxane Gay has pulled the publication of her upcoming book How to be Heard from Simon & Schuster, after the publisher reportedly paid Milo Yiannopoulos 250,000 for his memoirs. NPR named it one of the best books of the year and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, An Untamed State, was long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist, is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. With a deft eye on modern culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity.
The imprint from Gay, the author of Bad Feminist, Hunger, and other titles, will kick off next May with And Then He Sang a Lullaby, the debut novel from 23-year-old Nigerian writer and activist Ani Kayode Somtochukwu. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. Roxane Gay has revealed the first three books that will be published under her new Grove Atlantic imprint.
Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely revered.