{"id":12975,"date":"2017-09-18T09:08:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/?p=12975"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:57:29","slug":"exciting-new-non-fiction-hunger-a-memoir-of-my-body-by-roxane-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/resources-and-services\/exciting-new-non-fiction-hunger-a-memoir-of-my-body-by-roxane-gay","title":{"rendered":"Exciting new non-fiction &#8211; &#8220;Hunger: A memoir of (my) body&#8221; by Roxane Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roxane Gay&#8217;s memoir <a href=\"http:\/\/merlin.lib.umsystem.edu\/search~S1?\/thunger\/thunger\/1%2C149%2C196%2CB\/frameset&amp;FF=thunger+a+memoir+of+my+body&amp;1%2C1%2C\">Hunger\u00a0<\/a>is available for checkout through the University Libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roxanegay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roxane Gay<\/a> can\u2019t do??\u00a0 Let\u2019s just list some of the highlights of this amazing woman:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New York Times best-selling author (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18813642-bad-feminist?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bad Feminist<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>One of the first black women to be a lead writer for Marvel (<a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/comics\/issue\/61406\/black_panther_world_of_wakanda_2016_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther: World of Wakanda<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Writes both fiction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18467818-an-untamed-state?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Untamed State<\/a><em><strong>,<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28818921-difficult-women?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Difficult Women<\/a>) AND nonfiction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18813642-bad-feminist?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bad Feminist<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22813605-hunger?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunger<\/a>) AND poetry (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11535502-ayiti?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ayiti<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiny_Hardcore_Press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiny Hardcore Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Essays editor for <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rumpus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Professor at Purdue University<\/li>\n<li>Co-editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/pankmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PANK<\/a>, a nonprofit literary arts collective<\/li>\n<li>Writer of the long-running tumblr blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/roxanegay.tumblr.com\/)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roxane Gay is spelled with one &#8220;N&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12977\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22813605-hunger?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12977\" src=\"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/22813605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Click the cover for more information!<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You wonder how a woman like that has time to do all of this and still travel around the country, promoting her new book, Hunger: A memoir of (my) body.\u00a0 Gay has been open about her life and experiences, and in her new book, she tackles a subject she has often written about intimately on her tumblr blog.\u00a0 Her horrific sexual assault at age 12 has been a big influence on her work over the years, and this part of her past is discussed in this book, with regards to self-image and self-care: \u201c<em>I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 People make assumptions and are often cruel towards people of a certain weight, but more than that, Gay confronts the reality of being a fat person in today\u2019s society, for example: unsolicited advice from strangers (many listed on her blog with a link below), people taking food out of her grocery cart, and the heartbreaking realization that \u201cthe bigger you become, the smaller your world gets\u201d with regards to movie theaters and airplane seats, and being excluded in so many ways. Gay\u2019s honesty and vulnerability make this a memoir worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Interesting Links:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/video-clips\/oifn27\/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-roxane-gay---fitting-into-the-world-in--hunger----extended-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Roxane Gay&#8217;s interview on The Daily Show<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/roxanegay.tumblr.com\/post\/164039407460\/weight-loss-advice-i-have-received-since-hungers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Weight Loss Advice I Have Received Since Hunger&#8217;s Release&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>Here are recommendations for books that you may also enjoy &#8211; available through University Libraries!\u00a0 Click the covers for more information!<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12976\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18813642-bad-feminist?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12976\" src=\"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/18813642-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/18813642-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/18813642.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12980\" style=\"width: 123px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28503941-wonder-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12980 \" src=\"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/28503941-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/28503941-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/28503941.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Wonder Women: 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history by Sam Maggs and Sophia Foster-Domino<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12978\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25898263-we-were-feminists-once\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12978 \" src=\"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/25898263-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/25898263-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/25898263.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>We were feminists once: From riot grrrl to CoverGirl\u00ae, the buying and selling of a political movement\u201d by Andi Zeisler<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12979\" style=\"width: 127px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/26795372-sex-object\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12979 \" src=\"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/26795372-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/26795372-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/26795372.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Sex Object by Jessica Valenti<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roxane Gay&#8217;s memoir Hunger\u00a0is available for checkout through the University Libraries. Is there anything\u00a0Roxane Gay can\u2019t do??\u00a0 Let\u2019s just list some of the highlights of this amazing woman: New York Times best-selling author (Bad Feminist) One of the first black women to be a lead writer for Marvel (Black Panther: World of Wakanda) Writes both &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":12977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[496,503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources-and-services","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2017\/09\/22813605.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 08:08:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12975"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13008,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions\/13008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}