Sometimes she blends memoir with fiction, the essay form being creatively stretched, other times she writes with such a frankness, a matter-of-factness, there’s an alacrity to her prose, it doesn’t so much dazzle but it is often (still) spellbinding, the honesty and simplicity.
She’s prolific too, or it seems that way at least – online journals, fiction – long and short, essays, comic books, memoir. Roxane Gay is a very good writer – and across so many disciplines.