Two additional books, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body and The Year I Learned Everything, are expected to appear later this year. Gay's first short-story collection, Difficult Women, hit store shelves on Jan. 2016 marked the debut of her Black Panther spin-off comic, World of Wakanda, the first collected volume of which, Dawn of the Midnight Angels, is currently slated for publication on June 27. The next year, she put out Urgent, Unheard Stories: a short essay collection on reading. In 2014, Gay published two books: an essay collection titled Bad Feminist, and her first novel, An Untamed State. Her 2011 debut, Ayiti, combines fiction, nonfiction, and poetry into a single collection about the Haitian diaspora. Roxane Gay's writing is impossible to pigeonhole. Are you ready for some reading recommendations from everyone's favorite bad feminist? I've got all the best highlights for you below, including seven books Roxane Gay recommends in her NYT interview. Difficult Women author Roxane Gay finally has a 'By the Book' feature in The New York Times, so we get to find out what's on her nightstand and the kind of books she hates.
