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To visit the writer Kiese Laymon in the town where he lives and teaches, you have to fly to Memphis International Airport in Tennessee and then, if you don’t drive, like me, hitch a ride from there to Oxford, Mississippi. Laymon, 44, offered to pick me up. He was almost apologetic when he extended the offer, but it stems from a well-honed generosity: Giving rides is a service he’s used to.Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American writing. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of his essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in Mississippi.In this collection, Laymon deals in depth with his own personal story, which.This is a lame attempt at remembering the contours of slow death and life in America for one black American teenager under Central Mississippi skies. I wish I could get my Yoda on right now and surmise all this shit into a clean sociopolitical pull-quote that shows supreme knowledge and absolute emotional transformation, but I don't want to lie. Kiese Laymon Cold Drank Jul 2012 20 min.
Contributing editor Kiese Laymon is the author of the essay collection How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, of which this is an excerpt, and the novel, Long Division.Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American social and cultural commentary. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in the rural Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Study Guide for Heavy: An American Memoir. Heavy: An American Memoir study guide contains a biography of Kiese Laymon, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
