The National Book Foundation is awarding Roxane Gay with its annual Literarian Award for her service to the American literary community.

The prolific author, who is co-writing a sexy romance novel with Channing Tatum, believes in balancing darkness with light and joy.

Among her missions: to take down unnecessary gatekeeping in the arts.

Roxane Gay is a risk-taker. The author and cultural critic is unafraid to label herself a “bad feminist” — the title of her 2014 essay collection — or admit on national TV that, despite being a progressive, she owns a gun. She famously wrote about her complex relationship with food and her own body in her searing 2017 memoir, “Hunger,” a no-holds-barred exploration of how she became “super morbidly obese” and the accompanying shame she felt; at her heavi

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