Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Elle, Glamour, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, and Salon, where she was an editor. Sarah Hepola is the author of the bestselling memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. Now let’s get into it-over to you, Sarah and Andrew! Everyone is excited to read and discuss this book, and so are we. Hunger received, by far, the most votes in our Tournament of Books reader poll.
Since Hunger, she’s published Difficult Women (2017) and edited Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture, which was published earlier this week. She also co-wrote the World of Wakanda comic (2016). Hunger, published in 2017, is Gay’s fourth book, after Ayiti (2011), An Untamed State (2014), and Bad Feminist (2014). Today we’re discussing the first half of Hunger by Roxane Gay, through chapter 42. We’ve been talking about doing this for years, and now it’s finally happening. Rosecrans Baldwin: Welcome, everyone, to our first Rooster nonfiction event. Please note: We receive a cut from purchases made through the book links in this article. Jump into today’s discussion in the comments.See the May 2018 nonfiction reading schedule.Every Tuesday and Friday in May we’ll meet up to talk, and we’ll be teaming up with Sarah Hepola, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. Unlike the Tournament of Books and the Rooster Summer Reading Challenge, the Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up isn’t a competition-only a discussion about these three memoirs.
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You can see the full list of nonfiction contenders here.
We narrowed that list down to a single genre-memoir-and our readers voted to decide which three books we’d read for this event, and here they are: Hunger by Roxane Gay, Educated by Tara Westover, and Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood. To choose which books we’re reading this month, we asked this year’s ToB readers for suggestions back in March. Welcome to the Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up, brought to you by the organizers of the Tournament of Books.Īll month long we’ll be discussing three recent works of nonfiction.