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b'Kiese Laymon is the author of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and Heavy: An American Memoir.\\n\\n\\u201cIt\'s ironic to me that my mom was the woman who taught me how to read\\u2014she was the black woman who taught me how to read and write\\u2014and everything I wrote outside of my house I was taught not to write to my mama. I just think that\\u2019s where we are as black writers and black creators in this country. Literally because most of our teachers are white. Principals are white. The standards are white. But I wanted to flip this on its head and I wanted to write this book to the person who taught me how to read and write. And, yeah, we got some dysfunctional, fucked-up shit going on. But we also have some abundant love shit going on, too.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, The Last Column, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Mastermind (Evan Ratliff \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 2019)\\n\\n\\n@KieseLaymon\\n\\n\\nLaymon on Longform\\n\\n\\n[1:30] Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner \\u2022 2018)\\n\\n\\n[1:40] How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (Agate Bolden \\u2022 2013)\\n\\n\\n[01:45] "The Worst of White Folks" (Gawker \\u2022 Jul 2013)\\n\\n\\n[01:50] "How They Do in Ole Miss" (ESPN \\u2022 Oct 2015)\\n\\n\\n[03:20] The lamppost\\n\\n\\n[08:40] "Da Art of Storytellin\\u2019 (A Prequel)" (Oxford American \\u2022 Nov 2015)\\n\\n\\n[33:45] "You Are the Second Person" (Guernica \\u2022 Jun 2013)\\n\\n\\n[35:05] Where the Line Bleeds (Jesmyn Ward \\u2022 Agate Bolden \\u2022 2008)\\n\\n\\n[35:15] Long Division (Agate Bolden \\u2022 2013)\\n\\n\\n[36:00] "D\'Andre Brown\'s Basketball Dream" (ESPN \\u2022 Aug 2013)\\n\\n\\n[39:40] "My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK" (Gawker \\u2022 Nov 2014)\\n\\n\\n[55:35] "Michelle Obama Should Go High\\u2014And Kick" (Vanity Fair \\u2022 Nov 2018)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'