When I think about the reason we started this podcast it comes down to one thing: we wanted to meet writers whose work we love. Roxane Gay’s short stories have appeared on Joyland, and in dozens of literary journals. She’s written essays and criticism for the New York Times, Daily Beast, Salon and she was here in New York doing some work on her two upcoming books, An Untamed State for Grove Atlantic and Bad Feminist for Harper Collins. We talked about how much we’ve blocked our parents from reading our writing, why all feminists feel like bad feminists, and what is was like growing up without TV but embracing it later in life. Not to mention what writers can learn from Law & Order.