roxane gay, thank you, thank you. [applause] >> i love that you are a rock star. here is what is going to happen was we are going to take a couple questions from the audience and by questions i mean real questions, don't tell is a long story or -- we don't need your name or is that whole thing. a lot of people want to know thing so we will take just a couple in the audience and then roxane gay will be signing books which you already know about so raise your hand. >> hi, how are you? i didn't get too far in the book yet but what was the moment when you told your parents and your family what happened? >> i didn't. they know. that would be uncomfortable. a little magazine called time magazine published an article about my last nonfiction book and that opened up the familiar conversation. i am very passive-aggressive. i'm not proud of it. if i could do it over i would do it differently but it is hard to find the words so many years later. just cross my fingers that they never hear about the book, who is going to read a book about feminism? >> another question. >> roxa

eastern professor and novelist roxane gay discusses her life, her body and its impact on her life in her memoir "hunger". >> you see a woman in her phat pants and she's like i did it and i just thought i can't write that book yet and i want to write that book, so why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology. just explanation of this is my fat body and this is what it's like to be in this world in this body. >> for more on this weekend schedule, go to book tv.org. >> author james patterson, think i read somewhere or told by someone who knows this that one in 36 books in the us has your name on it. >> sacredness. i don't pay any attention. there are a lot of people who like my book, which is terrific for me and also for people going into bookstores and libraries. host: how many books are you working on right now? guest: usually a dozen or so book that i'm doing a one time. last year i wrote two books about myself and this is a weird one, if you think this through i approached 2500 pages of outlines last year and dolomite outlines our drafts, so three or four drops of a 2

[applause] >> roxane gay is the best time author of difficult women and marveled world of the condo. she's a contributor of writers to "the new york times" and has also written for time, the nation, salon and more. her fiction has been selected for the best short stories of 2012 and the best american mystery stories of 2014 among other anthologies. in her new book "hunger," she delivers an honest memoir of food, weight, sub image into learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. joining her on stage this evening is the cofounder and cohost of the call your girlfriend podcast. without further ado please join me in welcoming the amena and the featured author tonight, roxane gay. [applause] we are taking a selfie. [laughter] thinks so much for joining us today. this book is amazing. i knew i wasn't going to be disappointed. it was very emotional and raw and i was reminded of how generous you are as a person who isn't afraid to say what you're all thinking or should be thinking. >> you want me to elaborate? i wasn't thinking of i wanted my next project to be i be and t

. >> next on booktv, roxane gay discusses her body and its impact on her life in her memoir, "hunger." this program contains language some may find offensive. ms. . [applause] [cheers and applause] >> good evening. new york times best selling author of "bad feminist," "difficult women," she is a contributing opinion writer to "the new york times" and has also written for time, mcsweenys, the nation, salon and more. her fiction has been selected for the best american short stories of 201 and the best american mystery stories of 2014 among other anthologies. in her new book, "hunger," she delivers a seringly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. joining roxane on stage is co-host of the call your girlfriend podcast, emina -- [inaudible] without further ado, please join me in welcoming roxane gay. [cheers and applause] [inaudible conversations] >> we're taking a selfie. [laughter] my sister's going to be so jell-oous. [laughter] -- jealous. >> hello. >> thanks so much for joining us today. i'm so excited to talk to y

. >> if you don't follow roxane gay on social media that is where you get a lot of good stuff for free. [laughter] in my group we talk about how dastard the good you were and then there is a whole side about how you spent so much time on line talking to strangers on the internet chat rooms so that obviously came from a place of pain but then i go back again to sharing your ideas and your life to let people or they can relate to. >> i am always accused of not doing in my actual life. that is so funny. >> i have spent online probably since 1996. back in the day and went to college by a parents gave me a macintosh. back then we would use the 2400 modem to tie up the phone line i will take it home with me on breaks. i would tie a phones 16 hours at a time. and i would talk because i was so shy and afraid of the world but i had a very vivid imagination and to be on the internet allowed that so i would go on the message boards back in the day to talk to strange people and back then the internet was fairly safe. it isn't like it is today you could talk to a 40 year-old and not get murdered as

roxane gay the tells her experiences with food, weight and self image and paul hawkins discusses project drawdown. also this weekend, "new york times" business correspondent jack ewing provides a history of the volkswagen car company, its corporate culture and efforts to deceive emission standards in the us and retired army officer conrad crane talks about the implementation of the military's counter insurgency doctrine. that's a few others you will see this weekend on book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. first up, kathryn smith looks at the life of marguerite lehand, franklin d roosevelt's closest, personal and confidant.

and a sunday, ses, professor and novelist roxane gay discusses her memoir. >> you see a woman on the cover of her book standing in her formally fat pants and she is like, i did it. i thought, i cannot write that book yet, and i write -- i want to write that book. why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology, just explanation? this is what it is like to be in this body. >> for more on this week's schedule, go to book tv.org. >> president trump trip to the g 20 seven in poland, where he held a joint news conference in warsaw with the polish president eared he answered questions regarding the possibility of future u.s. military intervention in north korea. this is 25 minutes. >> the presence of united states of america and poland. most to sink was president, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to welcome to warsaw, to welcome to poland, the president of the united states of america, mr. donald trump. i am delighted with his visit. it is one of the first international visits paid by mr. president trump. it stresses our bond and high-quality of our alliance betwee

joining rocksian on stage, aminatou sow, and roxan gay. >> thank you for joining us today. this book is amazing. >> yeah. >> you know, i mean, you're like con yay to me. only two or three pointers. knew i wouldn't be disappointed. >> guest: speaking of three-pointers, there's a basketball game tonight. sorry. >> host: i was so struck by so many things when i read the book. had to stop many times because it was very emotional, really raw, and i was just reminded of how just generous you are as a person, somebody who is not afraid to say the thing that we are all thinking or should be thinking and helps us be a little more brave, and can you kind of talk to us about what was hard about writing this for you. >> guest: everything. you want me to elaborate? >> host: sure. >> guest: it was a difficult book to write. i sold this book in -- just before bad summer came out, and i was thinking about what i wanted my next nonfiction project to be, and i thought the book i want to write least is a book about fatness and then i realized it's the book i should write the most. my dad says

. >> next on booktv, roxane gay discusses her body and its impact on her life in her memoir, "hunger." this program contains language some may find offensive

eastern professor and novelist roxane gay discusses her life, her body and its impact on her life inher memoir "hunger". >> you see a woman in her phat pants and she's like i did it and i just thought i can't write that book yet and i want to write that book, so why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology. just explanation of this is my fat body and this is what it's like to be in this world in this body. >> for more on this weekend schedule, go to book tv.org.

roxan gay talks about when the rhythm is that good, you can't divorce it from what your brain is thinkinghe person is evil or vile or you just get stuck and dancing to music that you know is not affirming to you in your life. >> but race is also a factor here. because for so many african-americans, because of the history of how blacks have been treated in the criminal justice system, they look at charges against someone like r. kelly like him being abused or mistreated by the system. but that is without them doing their homework and digging deeper. this buzzfeed piece isn't just gossip on the internet. this is a piece. >> and i have to read this from the washington post and the piece is time to shut down r. kelly for good and for decades now the listening public has given that man power, fame and money and he wields his talented to entertain us and destroyed black girls and this is the devastating part and america doesn't give a damn. i want to move on to o.j. simpson. your thoughts on simpson being freed and remember he wasn't charged with the murder charges on this -- >> oh, no, he was

and a sunday, ses, professor and novelist roxane gay discusses her memoir. >> you see a woman on theover of her book standing in her formally fat pants and she is like, i did it. i thought, i cannot write that book yet, and i write -- i want to write that book. why don't i tell the story of my body today without apology, just explanation? this is what it is like to be in this body. >> for more on this week's schedule, go to book tv.org. >> president trump trip to the g 20 seven in poland, where he held a joint news conference in warsaw with the polish president eared he answered questions regarding the possibility of future u.s. military intervention in north korea. this is 25 minutes.