"The lauded social critic and provocateur curates a diverse and unvarnished collection of personal essays reckoning with the experiences and systemic dysfunction that produced #MeToo." - O, the Oprah Magazine "It's hard to imagine a more fitting editor for a collection like this. everyone should read it." - Brooklyn Rail "Critical reading." - Paste Magazine, "The Best Nonfiction Books of 2018" "From the author of Bad Feminist and Hunger (drop everything if you haven't read this) comes a collection of first-person essays about rape, assault and sexual harassment. It couldn't be more timely. Gay's introduction moved me to tears, as did many of the pieces contributed by household names--Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy--but accounts from "regular" women moved me even more. Perhaps that's the lesson we're meant to take away from Not that Bad: we're all "regular.

" Shocking as they are, many of these stories will be familiar to us all--and we all deserve better." - Glamour "From the author of Bad Feminist and Hunger (drop everything if you haven't read this) comes a collection of first-person essays about rape, assault and sexual harassment. It couldn't be more timely. Gay's introduction moved me to tears, as did many of the pieces contributed by household names--Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy--but accounts from "regular" women moved me even more. Perhaps that's the lesson we're meant to take away from Not that Bad: we're all "regular." Shocking as they are, many of these stories will be familiar to us all--and we all deserve better." - Elisabeth Egan, "The 17 Best Books to Read this Summer," Glamour "Timely. It is a critical work that makes this much clear: The violations #MeToo rages against can and do damage people for a lifetime.

" - The Globe and Mail "A profoundly personal anthology." - Harper's Bazaar "This is a devastating book, heartbreaking in how familiar and relatable each story is--yet there's power and solidarity in it, too." - Shondaland "Not That Bad is essential reading." - Refinery29 "A timely, necessary anthology." - PureWow.