“I think that the biggest thing people need to embrace is discomfort.” At the 92nd Street Y, Roxane Gay reads from her short story collection Difficult Women (Grove Press, 2017) and discusses topics from writing and feminism to Channing Tatum with poet Saeed Jones.
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