Kiese Laymon: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
b'Eric, Kate, and Medaya talk with Kiese about the struggle to buy his work back from the original publisher in order to revise and republish them, an experience that highlights the imbalance of power in the industry and the commodification of a writer\\u2019s work. The gang also chats about how the intervening years, including the Trump presidency now coming to a close, shaped his revisions.\\xa0\\nAlso, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, author of Likes, returns to recommend Theory, a novel by Dionne Brand.'