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“Roxane Gay is a brilliant writer. The way she’s able to express herself and her vulnerabilities in such an open and honest way is something I hope I was able to imitate in my work. But it’s a perspective on body that every young woman should read. So much culturally for women is tied up in our bodies: our worth, our sexuality. Culturally, we’ve been told that if our body isn’t a certain way, then you don’t have value. That’s an idea Roxane Gay—more eloquently than anyone—challenges and breaks down with humour and vulnerability.” Read more...
The Best Books for Surviving Your Twenties
Dana Schwartz, Memoirist
New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay narrates the audiobook of her painful memoir, Hunger. Journalist Dana Schwartz told us it was a book “every young woman should read.”
Narrator: Roxane Gay
Length: 5 hours and 58 minutes
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Speak, Memory
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Basil Street Blues
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The Self-Aware Image: An Insight Into Early Modern Meta-Painting
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
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Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
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Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon
by Sir Henry Channon
