![]() The event that shattered her childhood was written about in a stark and stunning 2010 essay, What We Hunger For: an unforgettable account of her rape at 12 by a boy she thought was her boyfriend, and his friends. Gay was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to strict but supportive Haitian immigrant parents who encouraged curiosity and excellence in Roxane and her two younger brothers. ![]() And if you’ve been paying attention this past decade, you’ll know it is vast. But its wordier subtitle, “A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business” tells the real story of the breadth of what interests Gay. The book, split into seven sections, is pertly called Opinions. Today we’re meeting to talk about a new collection of her nonfiction writing from the last 10 years. Gay, 48, is a multi-hyphenate: novelist, essayist, short story writer, professor, editor, comic book creator, reviewer, podcast host, critic and commentator, and before its recent reinvention, tweeter. The “step back” comes after more than a decade of near-constant stepping forward. “I didn’t get much writing done, but I did enjoy the step back,” she says. Later that summer, Gay revealed the pair had eloped. They got a puppy, played badminton and went on neighbourhood bike rides. Meanwhile, amid the horror of a global catastrophe, Gay and Millman eked out quality time together.
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