As Gay told The Great Discontent, she started to publish her work 'very carefully' in literary journals in the late '90s. Her first novel, An Untamed State, was published by Grove Atlantic in May, and her essay collection Bad Feminist has just been released by Harper Perennial (it happens to be our August Book of the Month, by the way), and they are both exceeding every ridiculously high expectation set for them.īut what may seem like overnight success is actually the product of decades of writing. This summer has been the summer of Roxane Gay, and the world is the better for it.
