Award-winning author Roxane Gay hosts this book club, where we read books by underrepresented American writers, talk about those books, and, when we’re lucky, talk to the writers of those books.
In Resting Bitch Face, Taylor Byas reclaims the gaze. Through paintings, photographs, film, and sculpture, she transforms the Black female speaker from object to subject—no longer just seen, but seeing, speaking, and answering back. With sharp, intimate poems that move between the art world and pop culture, Byas dismantles the myths that have framed Black womanhood, and rebuilds something truer, bolder, and entirely her own.
This is a book for women, for Black women, for anyone who’s ever wanted to step out of the frame and tell the story themselves. The Audacious Book Club’s September pick invites us to witness and be witnessed—and to talk about the power in that shift.
Roxane Gay’s writing appears 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. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.
Q's about the book club?
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Monthly Book Club subscriptions renew on the 15th of each month. Quarterly subscriptions renew on the 15th every three months from your initial subscription month.
We will announce each month's selection on the 15th of the prior month. If you're not interested in a particular month's book selection, you have the option to skip that month's shipment and receive a gift card for the equivalent amount. If you'd like to opt for the gift card, you have until the 17th to let us know. Plus, if you swap your book for a gift card, you'll still have access to the subscribers-only content portal.
When you sign up for a Book Club subscription, our system will automatically cancel your membership, so you aren't paying double! Membership is a complimentary perk of any Book Club subscription.
For quarterly book club subscriptions, you will be billed every three months on the 15th for the next month's book pick. Depending on the month you sign up, you'll be on one of three cycles.
Cycle 1: You will receive the January, April, July, and October books.
Cycle 2: You will receive the February, May, August, and November books.
Cycle 3: You will receive the March, June, September, and December books.
