NettetKiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the author of the genre-bending novel, Long Division and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.Laymon’s bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2024 … NettetThese cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our services. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the platform. If you do not allow these cookies we will not be able to monitor the performance of our services.
Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision
Nettet10. nov. 2024 · This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences, … Nettet16. okt. 2024 · In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to time in New York as a college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, … maniglie armadio
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Nettet13. okt. 2024 · Kiese Laymon has written a memoir that can scald your heart - a gifted son with a loving, accomplished mother who inspires and drives him and yet abused and … Nettet10. nov. 2024 · Writer Kiese Laymon takes on the messiness, richness, violence and diversity of the South in his work, as well as the complex question of what it means to … Nettet12. okt. 2024 · Biography. Kiese Laymon received a BA (1998) from Oberlin College and an MFA (2002) from Indiana University. He was a member of the faculty of Vassar College and the University of Mississippi prior to joining Rice University in 2024 as the Libbie Shearn Moody professor of English and Creative Writing. He is the founder of the … cristo risorto stilizzato