Roxane Gay, née le , est une auteure, professeure d'université et éditrice américaine. Elle est l'auteure de l'essai Bad Feminist publié en 2014, best-seller selon le New York Times. Elle a également écrit la série de nouvelles Ayiti (2011), le roman An Untamed State (2014), la série de nouvelles Difficult Women (2017) et ses Mémoires intitulés "Hunger" (2017).
Roxane Gay a été professeure adjointe au sein de la Eastern Illinois University durant quatre ans avant de rejoindre la Purdue University en tant que professeure adjointe d'Anglais.
Lire la suite...Le 15 octobre 1974 était un mardi sous le signe astral du ♎. C'était le 287ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était Gerald R. Ford.
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Date: 15 October 1974
US Amb to GB, Walter H Annenberg, who will resign post on Oct 30, says he feels bitter about way Amer press treated former Pres Nixon; says sections of press were more concerned with diplay of power than with responsibility
Date: 16 October 1974
G Gordon Liddy, member of original Watergate break-in team, released on jail on bail, is appealing terms totaling more than 20 yrs in break-ins at Dem Natl Hq and office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding
Date: 15 October 1974
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Outpouring of press releases at City Hall has nearly halted and uneasy calm has descended over press room in 10 mos that NYC Mayor Beame has been in office; previously, Lindsay adm had bombarded press with news releases and statements; Beame announces policies in terse press releases, unlike Lindsay, who would have introduced them on TV with charts, graphs, pictures and models; some newsmen fear that much is lurking below surface, unreptd; Beame's press sec Sidney I Frigand discusses Beame's attitude toward press and growing comfort with TV and radio; Beame adm has been virtually 'leak-proof,' since top aides are more comfortable with anonymity and more accustomed to keeping secrets and working in secrecy; Frigand's handling of press office has created problems for newsmen who find it difficult to get background information, but all newsmen say that Beame is very approachable; Frigand has no aide who can speak for adm with authority when he is absent (L)
Date: 15 October 1974
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker notes increase in student interest in journalism courses at univs throughout US; says that at late as 1960 there were only 60 students in Univ of North Carolina School of Journalism, whereas now there are more than 300; notes that Gilbert Mainknecht (Central Michigan Univ) has observed that 'the times have made the media important in everyone's life'
Date: 16 October 1974
Chilean Govt spokesman says on Oct 16 that NY Times correspondent Jonathan Kandell was denied permission to enter country because of his 'tendentious' dispatches in previous visits; Under Sec of Interior Enrique Montero says that decision to ban Kandell had been reached some time ago; Washington Post correspondent Joseph Novitski had also been barred from returning to Chile, but ban was lifted after he provided satisfactory explanations
Date: 15 October 1974
Special to The New York Times
South Vietnamese Govt has denied entry visa to NY Times correspondent Sydney H Schanberg
Date: 15 October 1974
Chilean Govt on Oct 14 announces that NY Times correspondent Jonathan Kandell ahs been permanently banned form country; Govt sources rept it was because of objections to articles by Kandell