How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Essays
New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc., 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: Revised edition.
Description: xvi, 159 pages ; 22 cm
A New York Times Notable Book
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).
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).
Contents:
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 e-mails -- 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.
Subjects:
Laymon, Kiese.
African American novelists -- Biography.
African American teachers -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Jackson (Miss.) -- Biography.
Laymon, Kiese.
African American novelists -- Biography.
African American teachers -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Jackson (Miss.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
1982170824
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LITERATURE Essays Lay | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |