Andreas Gruber

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.

Die Pandemie-Zwangspause nutzen und gemeinsam ein Buch schreiben! Sebastian Fitzek, Tausende Thriller-Fans und namhafte deutschsprachige Bestseller-AutorInnen unterstützen mit spannenden Kurzgeschichten den Buchhandel in Zeiten der Corona-Krise Unter dem Motto #wirschreibenzuhause hat Bestseller-Autor Sebastian Fitzek Ende März 2020 seine Instagram-Follower zu einem interaktiven Schreibwettbewerb aufgerufen. 1142 begeisterte Fans machten sich an die Arbeit und sandten ihre Thriller-Storys ein, die sich um das Thema “Identität” drehen, um das Motiv “Rache” und um den Fund eines Handys mit bedrohlichen Bildern darauf - Nervenkitzel pur! Eine Jury aus AutorInnen, Agenten und VerlagsmitarbeiterInnen wählte die dreizehn packendsten Geschichten aus, die nun in der Thriller-Anthologie "Identität 1142" erscheinen. Zusätzlich steuerten zehn der erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen BestsellerautorInnen eigene spannende Kurzgeschichten bei: Wulf Dorn, Andreas Gruber, Romy Hausmann, Daniel Holbe, Vincent Kliesch, Charlotte Link, Ursula Poznanski, Frank Schätzing und Michael Tsokos - sowie natürlich Sebastian Fitzek selbst. Entstanden ist ein Charity-Projekt der ganz besonderen Art: Sämtliche Gewinne aus dem Verkauf der Kurzgeschichten-Anthologie kommen über das Sozialwerk des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V. dem Buchhandel zugute!