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How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays / Kiese Laymon.

Summary:

A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the 'star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful" (NPR)... Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon's first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family's experiences, while simultaneously examining the world Mississippi, the South, the United States'that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon's profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience, trumpeting why he is'simply one of the most talented writers in America (New York magazine).

Record details

ISBN: 9781982170820
ISBN: 1982170824
Physical Description: xvi, 159 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc., 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published in 2013.

Formatted Contents Note:

Author's note #2 -- Mississippi : an awakening, in days -- What I pledge allegiance to -- Da art of storytellin' (a prequel) -- How they do in Oxford -- Hey Mama : an essay in emails -- Echo : Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon -- Daydreaming with D'Andre Brown -- You are the second person -- Hip hop stole my Southern black boy -- Our kind of ridiculous -- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America -- The worst of white folk -- You will never know.