It also succeeds, more subtly, on another level. In 2011, in a scorching indictment of a New York Times article that seemed to assign partial blame to an 11-year-old for her own gang-rape, Gay called on journalists and novelists alike to write rape differently, finding "ways of rewriting that restore the actual violence to these crimes and that make it impossible for men to be excused from committing atrocities." As an experiment in this type of writing, the book succeeds brilliantly. Gay, a prolific feminist writer (she has a book of essays called "Bad Feminist" coming out this summer), has written cogently about rape culture.
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