Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay has a short story up on WNYC’s Selected Shorts!
The episode summary describes it thusly:
The heroine of Roxane Gay’s “North Country” is a young woman from Florida adjusting to the harsh winter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which she describes as a move to “the edge of nowhere.” She is recovering from a bad love affair, and is slow to trust.
Plus the episode’s other story is called “Vanilla Bright Like Eminem,” and who doesn’t want to hear a story called “Vanilla Bright Like Eminem?”
