Acclaimed author, essayist, and editor Roxane Gay visits the Library for this special book launch with memoirist and essayist Oliver Radclyffe.

The multi-talented Gay will kick off the festival Friday evening, in discussion with author and memoirist Radclyffe. Gay’s writing has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others.

In addition, Gay is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, The New York Times best-seller Bad Feminist, the nationally best-selling Difficult Women, and The New York Times best-selling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel.

Gay has several books forthcoming and is at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity, and previously hosted the podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.

Radclyffe is the author of Adult Human Male. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and Electric Lit, and his newest memoir, Frighten the Horses, is debuting in September through Roxane Gay Books.