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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 share my thoughts with myself and three or four other people.
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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 book strangers who seemed so compelling. Louis, a budding filmmaker in Los Angeles. What mattered is how they club me want to understand the roxane from their club.
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. I am also going to use this space to feature the work of others. Every two lists, I will publish an essay from an emerging writer, someone with three or fewer publications and share roxane brief interview with them about their work, who they are, who they hope to become.
Yes, they will be paid a good and fair wage for their work. Everything starts January 11th. Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and website. All content will be free for the first month and most of the essays I share list will be in front of the paywall for the duration. Paid subscribers will, when the authors are willing and able to join us, have the opportunity to join me in a live Zoom conversation with that writer.
Gay because there are so many amazing books being published every month, I will also be featuring other recommended reading. Please purchase the books from your favorite independent bookstore or check them out from your local library. If other independent bookstores do this, you can also find those links here. My co-director for the book club is Kaitlyn Adams, an avid reader and all around wonderful person.
Stay tuned. I 2022 lived most of my life in the Midwest and many of those years were spent in very rural places. I am the daughter of Haitian immigrants. I co-wrote the graphic novel The Sacrifice of Darkness. I edited Best American Short Stories I was the first black woman to lead a Marvel comic when I wrote World of Gay.
I now write comics for TKO Studios. First, The Banks2022 up next, The Ends. Sometimes, I am an book. I only make men call me Dr.