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    Roxane Gay: The Facts And The Furious: Orlando Drift

    AMA's at Hard Rock Live Orlando! Roxane Gay talks about writing the memoir she planned to avoid, and her 243-point Scrabble play. Plus, a game about her favorite movies: The Fast and the Furious.
    Dec 15, 2017 2 minutes
    Host Ophira Eisenberg and author Roxane Gay on Ask Me Another at Hard Rock Live, Orlando, Florida.

    Writer and academic Roxane Gay resisted the world of competitive Scrabble as long as she could. A brilliant wordsmith, Gay thought she was "too cool" for the intensity of the tournament circuit. "Slowly but surely," though, her competitive side took over.

    "I have my own portable board and

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