After watching Roxane Gay answer a multitude of questions with humility and wit (and cut a few idiots into ribbons) on her tumblr ask day I decided to pick up this volume of essays. It is excellent. A few of the real standouts for me were "Typical First Year Professor", "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically", about the world of competitive Scrabble, "A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories", about the trade off of privacy for cultural prominence, and "Peculiar Benefits", one of the best short pieces of the nature of privilege that I have ever read.