Kiese Laymon
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Jordan talks with Kiese Laymon about fear, loving an enemy, trying not to write wack-ass shit, and what it was like to buy back the rights to his first books in order to have them revised and republished.
Mentioned:
"How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" at Gawker
Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
"Come and Get Me" -- Jay-Z
Toni Morrison\'s Nobel Prize lecture
Jesmyn Ward
Kiese 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\\u2019s bestselling memoir,\\xa0Heavy: An American Memoir, won the\\xa02019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose,\\xa0the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by\\xa0The New York Times.\\xa0The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard.\\xa0Laymon is at work on several new projects, including the long poem Good God, the horror comedy And So On, the children\\u2019s book City Summer, Country Summer, and the film Heavy: An American Memoir. He is the founder of \\u201cThe Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative,\\u201d a program aimed at getting Mississippi kids and their parents more comfortable reading, writing, revising, and sharing.
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