Ford, who mentioned that Roxane was her mentor.

Later, Debbie did an event with author Ashley C. “I didn’t ignore it, but I just sort of, you know, didn’t really, yeah.”

She ignored it,” Debbie finishes with a smirk. “After that she wrote me another email in which she explained her connection to Hunger and how much she loved the book, and it was extremely flattering and beautiful and I… ” “At that time I was extraordinarily interviewed-out,” Roxane says. Debbie, author of six books about design, including her newest, Why Design Matters: Conversations With the World’s Most Creative People, sent an email to Roxane asking if she wanted to appear on her long-running podcast. One of its many readers was Debbie Millman. A bestselling, diaristic record of sexual violence, fatness, and the back and forth of trauma and freedom from it, Roxane Gay’s Hunger was released in 2017.