Whatever her topic, Gay’s provocative essays stand out for their bravery, wit, and emotional honesty.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) She is by turns provocative, chilling, hilarious she is also required reading.” - Time Magazine “Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your sharpest critic. “One of our sharpest new culture critics plants her flag in topics ranging from trigger warnings to Orange is the New Black in this timely collection of essays.” - O, the Oprah Magazine, 10 Titles to Pick Up Now “Feisty, whip-smart essays on gender, sexuality, and race.” - Entertainment Weekly A New York Times best-seller, Bad Feminist establishes Gay as one of our foremost cultural critics and feminist thinkers.” - The Root “There has never been a book quite like Bad Feminist-a sometimes funny, sometimes serious pop-culture-literary-nonfiction-social-commentary hybrid written by a black woman in America. If you’re interested in critical thinking about culture, this book is a must.” - Newsweek An author who filters every observation through her deep sense of the world as fractured, beautiful, and complex.” - Slate Perfectly imperfect, Gay is an unforgettable voice, coming at just the right time.” - NPR, Best Books of 2014 At its best, the book offers Gay’s distinctive voice as both shield and a weapon against social norms just begging for examination. This best-selling collection of essays manages to be both a cultural biography and a deeply personal story of identity. “It’s no surprise that Roxane Gay-author, essayist and sharp observer of everything in pop culture we’re supposed to be too cool to like-has written such a winning book. “A strikingly fresh cultural critic.” - Ron Charles, Washington Post

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