“Now Roxane is being associated with someone who was talking about the inside of her vagina,” she says, laughing. “But she’s tall! And has hair!” says Irby, who shaves hers close, stands five-eight (Gay is over six feet tall), and wears thick tortoiseshell glasses. Irby and the prolific Gay, the best-selling author of Bad Feminist, are friends and mutual fans but resemble each other only in that they’re black women with tattoos who both have written movingly about body image and race. Roxane is not going be at this little literary fisticuffs competition telling shit jokes.’ ” ![]() “She looked at me like, ‘What? Aren’t you Roxane Gay?’ I was like, ‘No, girl. “I said, ‘Thank you, I’m glad you liked my book about butts,’ ” Irby says, self-deprecatingly referring to her 2013 memoir–essay collection Meaty, which Vintage Books is reissuing in 2018. But recently, at the Write Club - an event that pits writers head-to-head in a series of battles - a woman approached the 37-year-old to tell her how much she loved her work. The Chicago Tribuneonce said she “may well be the most talented, inappropriate woman” in the city for her searing, ribald storytelling at live-lit reading salons like Paper Machete at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge. ![]() It is not uncommon for people in Chicago to approach essayist and Bitches Gotta Eat blogger Samantha Irby. Samantha Irby: funny, ribald, not Roxane Gay.
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