Finesse goes a long way." In her chapter about her Scrabble obsession, Gay employs David Foster Wallace-style footnotes - paragraphs of text that would have been better incorporated into the narrative. Tell your friends the hard truths they need to hear. Roxane Gay is the author of the essay collection Bad Feminist, which was a New York Times bestseller the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize the memoir Hunger, which was a New York Times bestseller and received a National Book Critics Circle citation and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. "How to Be Friends with Another Woman" is a Cosmopolitan magazine-style list. The chapters' formats vary in ways that seem meant to be playful but come off as gimmicky instead. "Everyone means well, but there's a lot of bureaucracy. I turn around to say something before I realize she is talking to me." She sheds her overstated humility a few pages later, writing about university committee meetings. Gay is rather rude for ignoring that poor student.
Straining credulity, in "Typical First Year Professor," she writes, "Walking down the hall, I hear a young woman saying "Dr.
Ron Charles, Washington Post Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture.
Also blunting Gay's points (and she does have points to make, important ones) is her seeming ambivalence about her own competence. ISBN: 9781472119735 Number of pages: 336 Weight: 455 g Dimensions: 151 x 234 x 26 mm MEDIA REVIEWS A strikingly fresh cultural critic.
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