BAD FEMINIST: Essays by Roxane Gay (English) Paperback Book

Description: BAD FEMINIST by Roxane Gay, ROXANE GAY "Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there." -- Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR - Boston Globe - Newsweek - Time Out New York - Oprah.com - Miami Herald - Book Riot - Buzz Feed - Globe and Mail (Toronto) - The Root - Shelf AwarenessA collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generationIn these funny and insightful essays, Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better, coming from one of our most interesting and important cultural critics. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Back Cover One of our most indispensable writers . . . on everything that matters Author Biography Roxane Gay is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the New York Times bestselling memoir Hunger; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, for which she also writes the "Work Friend" column, she has written for Time, McSweeneys, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harpers Bazaar, Tin House, and Oxford American, among many other publications. Her work has also been selected for numerous Best anthologies, including Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 and Best American Mystery Stories 2014. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. In 2018 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and holds the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers Universitys Institute for Womens Leadership. Review "A strikingly fresh cultural critic." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post"Its no surprise that Roxane Gay--author, essayist and sharp observer of everything in pop culture were supposed to be too cool to like--has written such a winning book. . . . This best-selling collection of essays manages to be both a cultural biography and a deeply personal story of identity. At its best, the book offers Gays distinctive voice as both shield and a weapon against social norms just begging for examination. Perfectly imperfect, Gay is an unforgettable voice, coming at just the right time." -- NPR, Best Books of 2014"Arresting and sensitive. . . . An author who filters every observation through her deep sense of the world as fractured, beautiful, and complex." -- Slate"[A] touching and crucial essay collection. . . . If youre interested in critical thinking about culture, this book is a must." -- Newsweek"There has never been a book quite like Bad Feminist--a sometimes funny, sometimes serious pop-culture-literary-nonfiction-social-commentary hybrid written by a black woman in America. A New York Times best-seller, Bad Feminist establishes Gay as one of our foremost cultural critics and feminist thinkers." -- The Root"Feisty, whip-smart essays on gender, sexuality, and race." -- Entertainment Weekly"One of our sharpest new culture critics plants her flag in topics ranging from trigger warnings to Orange is the New Black in this timely collection of essays." -- O, the Oprah Magazine, 10 Titles to Pick Up Now"Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your sharpest critic. . . . She is by turns provocative, chilling, hilarious; she is also required reading." -- Time Magazine"A trenchant collection. . . . Whatever her topic, Gays provocative essays stand out for their bravery, wit, and emotional honesty." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Toss Roxane Gays collection of witty, thoughtful essays, Bad Feminist into your tote bag. With musings on everything from Sweet Valley High to the color pink, Gay explores the idea of being a feminist, even when youre full of contradictions." -- Self, "Smart beach-read alert""Gays essays are consistently smart and provocative. . . . Her essay collection will give you dinner-party conversation through September." -- Jennifer Weiners 10 best beach reads, USA Today"An assortment of comical, yet astute essays that touch on Gays personal evolution as a woman, popular culture throughout the recent past, and the state of feminism today." -- Harpers Bazaar"Roxane Gay may call herself a bad feminist but she is a badass writer. . . . Reading Bad Feminist is like having a fascinating (one-way) conversation with an extremely smart, well-read, funny and thoughtful party guest. Heres hoping we have another encounter soon." -- Associated Press"Roxane Gay is the gift that keeps on giving. . . . An entertaining and thought-provoking essay collection." -- Time"Bad Feminist collects the very good essays of It girl culture critic Roxane Gay." -- Vanity Fair, Hot Type"Fascinating. . . . An important and pioneering contemporary writer . . . Readers will immediately understand the appeal of Gays intimate and down-to-earth voice. . . . An important contribution to the complicated terrain of gender politics." -- Boston Globe"Alternately friendly and provocative, wry and serious, her takes on everything from Girls to Fifty Shades of Grey help to recontextualize what feminism is--and what it can be." -- Time Out New York"Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there." -- Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?"With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist--and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist." -- Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure and Bad Mother"Smart readers cannot afford to miss these essays, which range from socially significant art (Girls, Django in Chains) and feminist issues (abortion) to politics (Chris Brown) and why Gay likes pink." -- Library Journal"Pre-order it, put it on the library hold list, whatever. Just get ready to read it and quote it and share it and be challenged by it." -- Book Riot"There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I dont know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay." -- Elizabeth McCracken, author of Thunderstruck & Other Stories"Trailblazing." -- Salon"Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along." -- Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted"She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?" -- Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest Professor and MSNBC host"As Bad Feminist proves, Gay is a necessary and brave voice when it comes to figuring out all the crazy mixed messages in our mixed-up world." -- "20 New Nonfiction Books That Will Make You Smarter," Flavorwire"Gay writes with probing intelligence about pop-culture topics from the morality of Tyler Perry to how much the Sweet Valley High books mattered to her." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"Bad Feminist places pop culture under her sharp, often hilarious, always insightful microscope." -- GQ.com"A collection of sharp, Sontag-ianly searing pieces on everything from Orange Is the New Black to likability in fiction to abortion legislation. . . . Her pieces manage to be at once conversational and full of pithy aphorisms." -- The L Magazine"Gay is poised to hit the big time." -- Nylon Magazine"As a feminist who has been around a while I have a message for these girls: its okay -- you can skip the rigors of Betty Friedan and Andrea Dworkin and go straight to Roxane Gay, where feminism is not just friendly, but more relevant than ever." -- Erika Schickel, Los Angeles Review of Books"Whats so special about this collection is its accessibility - Gay is nothing short of a critical genius, yet every essay is approachable and open while still being thorough. Her writing is rare, and at that, not to be missed." -- Bustle"Im pretty sure Gay is incapable of writing anything boring. . . . Even better: Its an essay collection, so you can parse it out, maybe save a couple for days when the Internet is particularly infuriating." -- Jezebel"With trenchant thoughts on Sweet Valley High, The Help, abortion, and Chris Brown, Gay isnt really a bad feminist, just an uncommonly entertaining one." -- Vulture, "8 Books You Need to Read This August""A meaty volume of personal essays and criticism from one of the great storytellers and smartest cultural observers out there. . . . Gay is as critical and as she is admiring. That balance is what actually makes these essays so enjoyable and honest." -- Feministing.com"One of the liveliest, most joy-inducing books of the year. . . . Bad Feminist is a tour de force and Roxane Gay is a writer of considerable power, intelligence and moral acuity." -- Huffington Post"A broad, compelling book. . . . Its a book that feels like it needed to be out in the world . . . a book that feels vital, alive, and engaged with the world, and we need more writers as passionate as Roxane Gay." -- Flavorwire"Powerful, and its winsomeness is due entirely to Gays fearless, inclusive and accessible prose." -- Shelf Awareness"Read Bad Feminist to feel good about reading Vogue." -- New York Magazine, "Approval Matrix: Highbrow and Brilliant""Gays writing is thoughtful and funny, compassionate and bold, and shes just as likely to discuss Sweet Valley High as Django Unchained or Judith Butler." -- Refinery29"Gays essays expertly weld her personal experiences with broader gender trends occurring politically and in popular culture." -- Huffington Post"What makes Bad Feminist such a good read isnt only Gays ability to deftly weave razor-sharp pop cultural analysis and criticism with a voice that is both intimate and relatable. Its that shes incapable of blindly accepting any kind of orthodoxy." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Blunt and funny. . . . [Gay acknowledges] I am a mass of contradictions. For Gay, though, these contradictions are less a condition to be remedied than a source of greater strength." -- Washington Post"A prolific and exceptionally insightful writer. . . . Bad Feminist doesnt show us how Gay should be, but something much better: how Roxane Gay actually is. . . . Gay unquestionably succeeds at leading us in her way." -- Globe and Mail (Toronto)"I know there are still four and a half months left, but Im calling it now: 2014 is the year of Roxane Gay. I just devoured her book, Bad Feminist . . . Amazing." -- Rookie"Incisive, self-aware, risky, and often funny, the authors writing is reminiscent of Nora Ephrons 1975 collection of feminist essays, Crazy Salad. . . . Gay possesses a distinct perspective and singular voice." -- Library Journal"A thoughtful and often hilarious new collection of essays." -- Chicago Tribune""[Gays] energetic and thought-provoking first essay collection will become as widely read as other generation-defining works, like Nora Ephrons Crazy Salad and Joan Morgans When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost." -- Essence"Roxane Gay delivers sermons that read like easy conversations. Bad Feminist is an important collection of prose--prose that matters to those still trying to find their voice." -- Ebony"Bad Feminist is often LOL funny but continuously ruthless. Its 41 essays range from book and movie reviews to political issues and, in some of the most charming pieces, Gays accounts of a few of her personal passions, like tournament Scrabble and the color pink and The Hunger Games." -- San Antonio Express-News"As a culture critic, Gay has X-ray eyes. Her writing is smart and trenchant . . . Shes disarming and one of us, only smarter. She has a tumblr and she writes about Internet dating. We love her, you know?" -- Philadelphia Inquirer"Roxane Gay offers an unique (and often biting) perspective on pop culture." -- Miami Herald"Gay offers a complex and multifarious feminism to answer the movements ongoing PR issues, its flaws and its failures. . . . Bad Feminist surveys culture and politics from the perspective of one of the most astute critics writing today." -- Boston Review"Rip-roaringly funny and insightful essays." -- PureWow.com"Roxane Gay and her new book Bad Feminist are here to save us all. . . . Its a swift read with some serious substance. . . . GET TO KNOW HER ALREADY." -- xoJane.com"Roxane Gays ability to write so clearly about complex issues is truly impressive. Her essays about feminism, race, and class are hilarious, moving, and yes, educational, but never in a way that feels tired or boring." -- Cosmopolitan, "28 Life-Changing Books Every Woman Should Read""The book is powerful, and its winsomeness is due entirely to Gays fearless, inclusive and accessible prose." -- Shelf Awareness, Best Books of the Year"Gays writing is as accessible as it is sharp. . . . In the volume of essays, Gay mixes the personal, the political and the pop cultural with unashamed acknowledgement that the three are interrelated and often inseparable." -- Indianapolis Business Journal"[Gay is] hilarious. But she also confronts more difficult issues of race, sexual assault, body image, and the immigrant experience. She makes herself vulnerable and its refreshing." -- Tanvi Misra, Atlantic, "The Best Book I Read This Year""Gays insightful exploration of this topic makes readers worry less about their occasional shortcomings and more comfortable with being human." -- BookPage"Entertaining and enlightening. . . . Bad Feminist is an outtake of her wisdom, and we would all do well to take heed." -- Bitch Magazine"There has never been a book quite like Bad Feminist--a sometimes funny, sometimes serious pop-culture-literary-nonfiction-social-commentary hybrid written by a black woman in America." -- The Root"Gay, who has become one of our most provocative essayists, leaves nothing off the table in her debut collection . . . Taken in whole, Bad Feminist is a brave affirmation of selfhood: I am a woman, this is my story, and there is power in its telling." -- Gawker, "The Best Books to Give This Holiday Season: A Booksellers Guide""Roxane Gays Bad Feminist hardly needs more praise, but no other book speaks more eloquently, or more directly, about todays most crucial issues. . . . Gays essays are intimate and accessible, but broad in scope and deep in insight." -- Celeste Ng, "Writers favorite books of 2014," San Francisco Gate"If youre in the mood to read wonderful, thought-provoking essays that feel like theyre written by your best friend, check out Bad Feminist. . . . Gay puts you at ease as she shakes the foundations of what you believe." -- Buzzfeed, Sami Main, "28 Best Books by Women in 2014" Review Quote "With trenchant thoughts on Sweet Valley High, The Help , abortion, and Chris Brown, Gay isnt really a bad feminist, just an uncommonly entertaining one." Description for Teachers/Educators Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better. Roxane Gay--one of the most-watched and original young cultural observers of her generation--takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. Freshman Common Read: UCLA, Virginia Wesleyan College, Salem State University Details ISBN0062282719 Author ROXANE GAY Short Title BAD FEMINIST Language English ISBN-10 0062282719 ISBN-13 9780062282712 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2014 Subtitle Essays UK Release Date 2014-08-05 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2014-08-05 NZ Release Date 2014-08-05 Pages 336 DEWEY 305.42 Audience General Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint Collins Place of Publication New York Imprint US Harper Perennial Publisher US HarperCollins Publication Date 2014-08-01 US Release Date 2014-08-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:82911399;

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