Roxane Gay: ‘No one is guaranteed love or affection’

The author of Bad Feminist and Hunger has strong words for ‘incels’, harassers in publishing and diet gurusBorn in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1974, Roxane Gay is an author, essayist, New York Times opinion writer and associate professor of English at Indiana’s Purdue University. She has published a novel, An Untamed State, two short story collections, Ayiti and Difficult Women, the New York Times bestseller Bad Feminist (which Time magazine described as “a manual on how to be hu