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Conversations with Kiese Laymon
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In over a dozen interviews, Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian. Interviews capture surprising insights into Laymon's life and craft. Within these pages, Laymon talks about his engagement with other writers, including Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty. These revelations situate his memoir, Heavy, among other great Mississippi autobiographies and memoirs, such as Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi, Welty's One Writer's Beginnings, Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped, and Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive. In other interviews, he discusses his obsession with revision and deftly fields questions about pop culture, politics, and Black masculinity, along with a host of other pressing contemporary issues.
As the first collection of its kind, Conversations with Kiese Laymon serves as the perfect introduction to studying Laymon. The cross section of interviews included reflects Laymon's humility, while simultaneously celebrating his accomplishments. Most importantly, the interviews reflect his stature as a major American literary figure. With topics ranging from hip-hop and family to politics and everything in between, this volume provides an unfiltered look at the prolific Southern writer in his own words.
As the first collection of its kind, Conversations with Kiese Laymon serves as the perfect introduction to studying Laymon. The cross section of interviews included reflects Laymon's humility, while simultaneously celebrating his accomplishments. Most importantly, the interviews reflect his stature as a major American literary figure. With topics ranging from hip-hop and family to politics and everything in between, this volume provides an unfiltered look at the prolific Southern writer in his own words.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- A Conversation with Kiese Laymon
- Hypertext Interview with Kiese Laymon
- Heavy Are the Words of Kiese Laymon
- Writing Back to History: A Conversation with Kiese Laymon
- āA Reckoning Is Different Than a Tell-Allā: An Interview with Kiese Laymon
- Kiese Laymon: āAbsent Fathers and Present Mothersā
- āI Donāt Want People to Forget the Sentenceā: An Interview with Kiese Laymon
- The People of Jackson Are Ready: Chokwe Antar Lumumba in Conversation with Kiese Laymon
- Interview with Scott Peters for the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
- The Flag and the Fury
- On Resilience, Tender Rituals, and Responsible Love: Talking with Kiese Laymon
- āConjuring Loveā: A Conversation with Kiese Laymon
- Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love and Love as Revision
- Bayou Magazine Interview
- Sitting in Silence: Special AWP Edition Interview with Kiese
- Food for Thought: An Interview with Kiese Laymon
- Index
- About the Editor