Thick: And Other Essays
The New Press, October 2019. Trade Paperback. Item #325297 Enviable Sales Track: nearly 20,000 copies sold in hardcover and over 4,200 e-books. Expanding media profile: author has 88,000 Twitter followers; she co-hosts a popular podcast, Hear to Slay, with bestselling author Roxane Gay featuring celebrity interviews with Gabrielle Union, Stacey Abrams, and others; All In with Chris Hayes guest expert on college admissions scandal; author's guest-host interview of Trevor Noah on WNYC's Death, Sex, and Money was widely circulated and praised. Excellent Publicity for Previous Books: Thick and Lower Ed were reviewed in the New York Times Book Review; the first edition of Thick was serialized in Time, reviewed by LARB, WBUR, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Riot, Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, The Millions, and was the March 2019 Well-Read Black Girl pick; author has been interviewed on The Daily Show, multiple NPR shows, Amanpour & Company, WITH (Chris Hayes), Slate, and iHeart Radio, among other radio shows and podcasts. Academic celebrity: The American Sociological Association has awarded her the 2019 Doris Entwisle Early Career Award. Political firebrand: Her congressional testimony, for which she was invited and questioned by Elizabeth Warren, has been heavily publicized.
ISBN: 1620975874
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Price: $16.99