What are the different challenges and rewards of working in each medium? Storytelling is storytelling, I have learned, so I write in a lot of different genres. You have published work in so many formats: novels, books of essays and short stories, a comic book (Marvel’s Black Panther: World of Wakanda, with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey), plus an upcoming memoir and a screenplay. Gay took a break to talk with American Libraries about social media, her many projects, and the role of libraries throughout her life.
Gay made headlines earlier this year when she pulled a third manuscript, How to Be Heard, from Simon & Schuster to protest that publisher signing then-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Her short-story collection, Difficult Women (Grove Press), was released in January, and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (HarperCollins) is due out in June. The much-in-demand author spent the spring crisscrossing the country on book tours and speaking gigs, including a keynote session at the Association of College and Research Libraries conference in March.
