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 about 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 Beginning, Jesmyn Wards’s Men We Reaped, and Natasha Tretheway’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 reflect 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-08-21
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt387 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiterary Conversations Series
Antal sidor156
FörlagUniversity Press of Mississippi
ISBN9781496858115

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IntroductionChronologyA Conversation with Kiese LaymonRoxane Gay / 2013Hypertext Interview with Kiese LaymonSheree Greer / 2015Heavy Are the Words of Kiese LaymonAuburn Avenue / 2018Writing Back to History: A Conversation with Kiese LaymonMonet Patrice Thomas / 2018"A Reckoning Is Different Than a Tell-All": An Interview with Kiese Laymon Abigail Bereola / 2018Kiese Laymon: "Absent Fathers and Present Mothers" Poppy Noor / 2018"I Don’t Want People to Forget the Sentence": An Interview with Kiese LaymonMeghan Brown / 2019The People of Jackson Are Ready: Chokwe Antar Lumumba in Conversation with Kiese LaymonKiese Laymon / 2019Interview with Scott Peters for the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke UniversityScott Peters / 2020The Flag and the FuryRadiolab/WNYC Studios / 2020On Resilience, Tender Rituals, and Responsible Love: Talking with Kiese LaymonApril Pejic / 2021"Conjuring Love": A Conversation with Kiese Laymon Jane Ratcliffe / 2021Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love and Love as RevisionJordan Kisner / 2022Bayou Magazine InterviewMarian Kaufman and Nora Seilheimer / 2023Sitting in Silence: Special AWP Edition Interview with KieseMaurice Carlos Ruffin / 2024Food for Thought: An Interview with Kiese LaymonConstance Bailey / 2024Index