Busboys and Poets has always been a place for artists, activists, and writers of the community to gather and break bread. And while we may be physically distant right now, we can still stay connected and break bread together.
Join us on Zoom for Busboys and Friends: A Zoom Dinner Party held every Friday night at 6 pm. Hosted by CEO and Founder, Andy Shallal with a special dinner guest each week.
Order your favorite meal and beverage from Busboys and Poets, set your table, and tune in for a special dinner with some of the most influential leaders of our time.
With Special Dinner Guest: Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is a writer, a Haitian-American, a bisexual, feminist and professor of English at Purdue University whose work focuses on women's rights, race, and identity.
Roxane Gay's writing is unmatched and widely revered. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. With a deft eye on modern culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity.
Gay's collection of essays,"Bad Feminist," is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. NPR named it one of the best books of the year and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, "An Untamed State," was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.
In 2017, Roxane released her bestselling memoir, "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body," which was called “Luminous...intellectually rigorous and deeply moving” by The New York Times. She also released her collection of short stories, "Difficult Women." The Los Angeles Times says of the collection, “There’s a distinct echo of Angela Carter or Helen Oyeyemi at play; dark fables and twisted morality tales sit alongside the contemporary and the realistic...” Gay edited the 2018 anthology "Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture." It has been described as “essential reading” and a “call to arms” by its readers.
Roxane co-hosts "Hear to Slay" with Tressie McMillan Cottom – a podcast with an intersectional perspective on celebrity, culture, politics, art, life, love, and more. She is also a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times, was the co-editor of PANK, and formerly was the non-fiction editor at The Rumpus. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Nation and many other publications.
She was the first black woman to ever write for Marvel, writing a comic series in the Black Panther universe called "World of Wakanda." Roxane fronts a small army of avid fans on social media and when she finds the time, she dominates the occasional Scrabble tournament.
Get your copy of Roxane Gay's seminal works from the Busboys and Poets Bookstore online here. Previous Busboys and Friends: Zoom Dinner Party guests' works are also available.
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