On tour: Meet the author Roxane Gay

Tuesday, 3 February 2015 Books+Publishing

Roxane Gay is the writer of the novel An Untamed State (Corsair) and the collection of essays Bad Feminist (Corsair). She will be a guest of Adelaide Writers’ Week and Sydney’s All About Women Festival in March.

What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?
For Bad Feminist: This book is not what you expect it will be and it is so very good to be bad.

For An Untamed State: May you find the raw power of hope in these words.

What are you reading right now?
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham (Little, Brown).

What are you planning to read next?
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

Which book do you always recommend?
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (Penguin).

What was the defining book of your childhood?
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (various imprints).

If you were a literary character you’d be …
Laura Ingalls Wilder aka Half Pint.

What’s your favourite book adaptation (film, television or theatre)?
The Age of Innocence.

What’s your favourite books website or blog?
Electric Literature: www.electricliterature.com

Hardback, paperback or digital?
Paperback.

Facebook or Twitter?
Twitter.

In 50 years’ time books will be …
As necessary as they have always been, the marrow of our cultural bones.

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