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The Audacious Roundup

For the week of August 29th

Roxane Gay
Sep 6, 2022
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Keep up with the Joel Gay Creative Fellows, Jet Toomer, Jesus Rodriguez, and Elspeth Michaels.

The September selection for the Audacious Book Club is How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo. Our conversation with Elaine takes place on September 29th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Register now! If you missed our conversation with Kirstin Chen, author of Counterfeit, you can tune in to the recording.

The Audacity. is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber but especially a paid subscriber.

I am reading submissions to The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series. Read the guidelines and submit your best writing. Submissions will be open until I have 24 essays.

Don’t Forget: Why Design Matters by Debbie Millman.

If you’re looking for a nice notebook, check out my new Draft Writing Journal from Baron Fig. It’s pretty swank if I do say so myself. (The first printing is sold out but more are on the way.)


Dancers at L.A.’s Star Garden are unionizing!

And speaking of unions, workers at Chateau Marmont have joined Unite Here Local 11. The boycott worked and has now ended.

I hope you all had a lovely Labor Day weekend!

In These Times is hiring a new executive editor.

Children are being kidnapped, often with their parents’ consent and it’s criminal in every sense.

I recently finished Jonathan Escoffery’s I Will Survive You, which I HIGHLY recommend and he is profiled in The New York Times.

Outdoor dining in NYC is coming to an end (ish).

Serena Williams played what is likely her last tennis tournament. She was glorious. She wore diamonds in her hair. She is the GOAT.

Infamous looters were looted right back.

May I never, ever be woken up like this.

RIP Barbara Ehrenreich.

RIP Mikhail Gorbachev.

Jackson, MS is without potable water after decades of systemic racism and neglect.

A town in New Jersey cut down all the trees so homeless people can’t enjoy the shade and now, no one else can either. In Nebraska, a school shut down the paper when students dared to publish a couple columns about LGBTQ issues.

Chris Rock says he turned down an offer to host next year’s Oscars and then made a dated, tasteless joke as is his right. I said what I said, after last year’s Oscars and I stand by it.

The Cut is featuring incredible profiles of Megan THEE Stallion and Meghan Markle THEE Queen of our hearts.

Lea Michele, the new funny girl, has a lot on her shoulders. And she is plagued by rumors and accusations of illiteracy, racism, and more.

FKA Twigs on her abusive relationship with Shia Leboeuf.

Leonardo DiCaprio broke up with his girlfriend just after she turned 25. Heh. Again!

A morning with Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) and her dog.

Police in Columbus, OH shot and killed an unarmed Black man. He was 20 years old.

Finishing Michael K. Williams’s story, may his memory be a blessing.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is on Broadway!

Brittany Luse goes deep on passing narratives.

The gossip around the new movie Don’t Worry Darling is quite sublime. It’s nice to have some low-stakes celebrity nonsense to discuss. Did Harry spit on Chris Pine? How are we feeling about Pine’s outfit? Harry’s collar? Florence Pugh’s strut in that outfit? SUBLIME, I SAY!


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mon iver 🫡 @waystarroyhoe
chris pine disassociating at a press conference, florence pugh showing up 15 mins late with an aperol spritz, tom cruise clinging to a plane and saying "see you at the movies!", brendan fraser getting a six minute ovation...maybe cinema really is back
3:20 PM ∙ Sep 5, 2022
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Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs
I was in Europe. Lost 10 pounds in under 2 weeks. Came back to the US. Inflamed and stomach is in pain. What the hell is in our food?
2:21 PM ∙ Sep 3, 2022
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JRR is Jokien 🗡️🏹🪓 @joshcarlosjosh
when I see that September starts this week:
George Costanza from Seinfeld saying "I gotta focus. I'm shifting into soup mode."
5:18 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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kass @kassianeckles
the whole susan boyle thing was insane. like the whole ethos of the situation was that ppl were shocked somebody they thought was ugly could sing.
1:45 PM ∙ Aug 31, 2022
156,250Likes11,235Retweets
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Emily Porter, M.D. @dremilyportermd
I had a guy friend with a Ph.D in engineering ask me last week how women pee with a tampon in and this is why men shouldn’t be passing laws about women’s bodies.
4:59 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
507,497Likes85,754Retweets
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Sarah Lazarus @sarahclazarus
maybe leonardo dicaprio hated 9/11 so much that he can’t even date women who remember it. did that even occur to you
11:35 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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tia @cursedhive
like chris rock opens his mouth and instantly the slap not only makes sense, but seems like it wasn’t enough
9:42 PM ∙ Aug 29, 2022
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Kate
Sep 6, 2022

Reading this on a full airplane and did a full GASP about cutting trees down to deter unhoused people and then busted out laughing at the DiCaprio tweet. Audacious as usual!

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KSC Hatch
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Sep 12, 2022

The Tweet palate cleanser at the end is, as ever, perfectly balanced.

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