Author Archives: Theryn

Some things I read this month

Jonathan Durbin,”Roxane Gay Is The Hardest-Working Woman In Letters” (Village Voice)
Dayna Evans, “The Return of a Grunge Goddess” (The Cut)
“Powell’s Q&A: Roxane Gay, Author of ‘Hunger’” (Powell’s Books)
Adelle Platon, “Eminem’s Definition of ‘Stan’ Added to Oxford English Dictionary” (Billboard)
Jenny Zhang, “Writer Roxane Gay on bodies, ambition, and fighting loneliness” (Rookie)

Some things I read this month

Lisa Congdon, “On Self-Employment, Workaholism and Getting My Life Back“
Neha Sharma, “Everything Carrie Ever Wondered About on Sex and the City” (Vulture)
Edra Ziesk, “When This You See, Remember Me” (The Millions)

Some things I read this month

“Roxane Gay, Aimee Bender, and More on Assault and Harassment in the Literary World” (Literary Hub)
Monica Heisey, “The Canadian Women Behind Some of the Internet’s Favorite Music Videos” (Broadly)
Jeanne McCulloch & Mona Simpson, “Alice Munro, The Art of Fiction No. 137” (The Paris Review)
Bonnie Nazdam, “Experts in the Field” (Tin House)
Kory Stamper, “America’s Uncivil War Over Words” (The New York Times)

Some things I read this month

Jacqueline Feldman, “The Bot Politic” (The New Yorker)
Lacy M. Johnson, “Art in the Age of Apocalypses” (Tin House)
Molly McArdle, “The Rise of Roxane Gay” (Brooklyn Magazine)
David Smith, “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on transgender row: ‘I have nothing to apologise for’” (The Guardian)
Gloria Steinem, “Women Have ‘Chick Flicks.’ What About Men?” (The New York Times)
Anna Maria Tremonti, “How to raise a feminist: a manifesto by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie” (The Current)
Simon Worrall, “The Secret History of the Women Who Got Us Beyond the Moon” (National Geographic)

Some things I read this month

Rumana Ahmed, “I Was a Muslim in Trump’s White House” (The Atlantic)
Binyamin Applebaum, “The Jobs Americans Do” (The New York Times Magazine)
Abigail Bereola, “The Rumpus Interview with Roxane Gay” (The Rumpus)
Sari Botton, “Ghost Stories” (The Millions)
Maria Bustillos, “STAT: My Daughter’s MS Diagnosis and the Question My Doctors Couldn’t Answer” (Longreads)
Amanda Fortini, “Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1” (The Paris Review)
Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds” (The New Yorker)
Niki Kottmann, “Trying to find the dividing line between ‘travel writing’ and ‘writing about place’” (Neiman Storyboard)
Jenni Murray, “Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich” (The Guardian)

Some things I read this month

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About” (The New Yorker)
Melissa Dahl, “How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running” (NY Magazine)
“Roxane Gay: By the Book” (NY Times)
“The Full Text of ‘Bad Feminist’ Author Roxane Gay’s WI12 Speech” (Publishers Weekly)
Mandy Godwin, “Craving Analog in a Digital World: Why Vinyl, Film, and Old-School Experiences Are Making a Comeback” (Heleo)
Lauren Katz, “Merriam-Webster has become the sassiest Twitter account of the Trump era. Meet its author.” (Vox)
Amy Kaufman, “Celebration of women filmmakers triggers heated debate among Salma Hayek, Jessica Williams and Shirley MacLaine” (Los Angeles Times)
Elizabeth King,”A Short History of the Tomboy” (The Atlantic)
Alison Pick, “How Christmas Helped Me Discover—and Eventually Reclaim—My Jewish Roots” (Tablet Magazine)
Chivas Sandage, “The Trouble With Confidence” (The Rumpus)
Emily Temple, “12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise” (Literary Hub)
Ed Yong, “How a Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology” (The Atlantic)

progress is mostly an illusion

[T]he few of us who do manage to break through are touted as examples of progress while we are still the exceptions and not the rule. And then, the writers who come up after us are told that there’s no room for them. … Those of us that break through are, to some, interchangeable tokens, trotted out as examples of progress when, in fact, that progress is mostly an illusion.

—Roxane Gay