Name: Conversations with Kiese Laymon
SKU: 64775459
Price: 116.99 EUR
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Author: Constance Bailey
ISBN: 9781496858115

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Author

Constance Bailey

Collection

Literary Conversations Series

Year

2025

Pages

156

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9781496858115

Conversations with Kiese Laymon

Constance Bailey (Author) · University Press of Mississippi · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Conversations with Kiese Laymon"

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.