It was May of 2016, and Gay was referring to Hunger, her much anticipated memoir. “It’s the hardest thing I’ve had to write, and it’s the best thing I’ve ever written,” Roxane Gay said to a crowd gathered to hear her deliver the PEN World Voices Festival’s Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture.
J“t’s frustrating that the expectation is for women to have to apologize for fatness and then do this elaborate weight loss in the public eye.” Roxane Gay on Hunger, Trauma, and the Unruly Body
