Roxane gays audacious book club
The Audacity.
How do I participate in the Audacious Book Club?
Our publication club is pretty informal and its easy to join in on our conversations. Everything happens via this newsletter. Each month, we announce our selection and throughout the month, we announce discussion prompts that we warmly encourage you to participate in via the comments.
Does it cost anything to participate in the book club?
The book club is open to anyone who subscribes to this newsletter, whether it is a free or a paid subscription. We always appreciate those who partake of a paid subscription because it helps support the various costs of running this modest enterprise.
Do we get to chat with the authors?
Yes! Toward the conclude of each month, we possess a live conversation, via Zoom, with the author of the month. There are opportunities both before the live conversation and during to ask questions. All of our previous conversations include been archived and are accessible via my YouTube channel. We also have ASL interpreters for every live conversation and if there’s anything we can verb to make the convers
The Audacity.
I’ve been thinking about blogs lately because I miss them. I am very attached to things that fade into obsolescence. For years, I wrote an obscure little blog few people read and that was mostly fine because I could contribute my thoughts with myself and three or four other people. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, I was also growing as a writer, thinking more about how to tell a story, how to get readers to care about the story. But I was also an avid blog reader. Every day I looked forward to opening my Google Reader (RIP) and reading about the lives of complete strangers who seemed so compelling. A mother in Utah, a designer in the Bay Area, a foster parent in NYC, a baker in St. Louis, a budding filmmaker in Los Angeles. It didn’t matter how different the bloggers were. What mattered is how they made me desire to understand the world from their perspective.
People curate what they put from their lives into the public sphere but a good writer makes what they curate one hell of a story. That’s what I hope to do with this newsletter—tell one hell of a story
Here is all her books for If anyone is interested. The book club will up for one year. She is to announce later if this will continue.
Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew, Black Futures (January)
Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby (February)
Brandon Hobson, The Removed (March)
Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk, Blood, Heat(April)
Kaitlyn Greenridge, Libertie (May)
Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt (June)
Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds (July)
Ashley C. Ford, Somebody&#;s Daughter (August)
Donika Kelly, The Renunciations (September)
Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (October)
Nichole Perkins, Sometimes I Trip on How Joyful We Could Be (November)
Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties (December)
"'Martyr!', Akbar’s debut novel, picks up Akbar’s thread of addiction, distress tolerance, and distorted reality: the novel opens with Cyrus, an Iranian American poet, lying 'on a mattress that smelled enjoy piss and Febreze' and willing God to make the lightbulb in his room flicker, to manifest a sign that he should start over againTold from Cyrus’s conflicted, vulnerable, and often irascible perspective and interweaving the stories of the friends, family, artists, and other characters who have had an impact on Cyrus’s life, Akbar’s debut is an exploration of martyrdom and the reasons we find to stay alive." -RG
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