Why is the PEN World Voices Festival intriguing to you? You’re traveling to a lot of literary gatherings this year. We spoke with Gay about living off the popular literature grid, pushing diversity and the problem with woke men. This year’s weeklong spring festival explores the theme On Mexico through dozens of literary events-including a discussion on Chicano/a culture, a celebration of female Mexican authors and a conversation with Salman Rushdie-and culminates with Gay’s lecture on Sunday, May 1.
This weekend, she comes to town as the keynote speaker for the giant PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. Beloved novelist, essayist, blogger, professor and Twitter queen Roxane Gay became a household name with her wryly philosophical and resolute book Bad Feminist.
