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Kiese Laymon How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Title
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Subtitle
- Essays
- ISBN-10
- 1982170824
- EAN
- 9781982170820
- ISBN
- 9781982170820
- Release Date
- 11/10/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Book Title
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America : Essays
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Topic
- American / African American, Media Studies, Sociology / General, General, Educators, Essays, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 5.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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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).
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1982170824
ISBN-13
9781982170820
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24050404449
Product Key Features
Book Title
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America : Essays
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Media Studies, Sociology / General, General, Educators, Essays, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
5.9 Oz
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"Gracefully encompassing pain and power and so much in between, Laymon's artfully piercing essays share truth without limit, and could not feel more timely." -- Booklist , starred review "Revised and expanded from its original publication in 2013, this collection of forthright, spirited essays (six are new) moves back and forth among Jackson, Mississippi, where Laymon was born and grew up ... A timely and disquieting contribution to urgent conversations about race." -- Kirkus "I first encountered Kiese Laymon's writing when I read How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. I was stunned into stillness." --Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist, "By adding six rich new essays, deftly curating seven from the original book, and reworking the chronology, [Laymon has] made a once solid collection superb. This revision opens with Laymon in full bloom as an artist and introspector in his essay ''Mississippi: An Awakening, in Days.'' Contextualizing the ''where and why'' of Laymon''s making as an artist provides the narrative thrust of the book, as readers are escorted back in time, ending, chronologically, at the beginning. Ever-present throughout How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is the blues ethos of stating and confronting the brutal facts of life and of placing a high premium on style, improvisation and excellence. " --New York Times Book Review "Laymon writes that it took courage for him to face himself, the truth of who he is, who he was. Necessary steps to get to the man he wants to be. The same can be said of the nation, he writes. It takes courage to face things down, call them out and then to act on them. It takes fearless revision." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution "[A] profound work... Laymon brings vulnerability to each page, whether talking about the influence of OutKast and Southern hip-hop on his life, being told that he''s not like other Black people, or battling personal demons on the path to becoming a published writer... Moving and meditative, this reckoning on Blackness, manhood, and self adds to Laymon''s legacy as an influential writer." -- Library Journal , starred review "Gracefully encompassing pain and power and so much in between, Laymon''s artfully piercing essays share truth without limit, and could not feel more timely." -- Booklist , starred review "Revised and expanded from its original publication in 2013, this collection of forthright, spirited essays (six are new) moves back and forth among Jackson, Mississippi, where Laymon was born and grew up ... A timely and disquieting contribution to urgent conversations about race." -- Kirkus "While you might successfully read every page in one sitting (and you''ll want to), it will take days to fully absorb their richness. When you read Laymon''s writing, you are engaging in a conversation that takes place both on and off the page. This is a book you will find yourself revisiting and discussing, with yourself and others, over and over." -- Southern Review of Books "In this new edition of ''How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America,'' Laymon uses 13 different essays to remind me of the power found in vulnerability. Not in how it can ''save us,'' but in how it can connect us." -- Bese "The second edition of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, out this month, is still about home and family and ghosts, but from the perspective of a more experienced Laymon, writing from a place he has more experiences in--his home state of Mississippi. [Laymon] will continue to use his love, his voice, to write to his peoples, and he will continue to revise off the echo of his own writing, off his own personal ghosts, off the ghosts of the peoples that came before him, off the written monuments they memorialized. And he can continue to revise and use his voice for his peoples, for his home, for those of us that follow him, and our responses can echo back, as we all examine what is wrong with us, as we all examine how we slowly kill ourselves and those we love in America, as we build homes for ourselves." -- Ploughshares at Emerson College "If a book of essays had a physical bite, it would be this one. Combining every element of our lives, from music, to police, to our mothers, Laymon casts his ever-aware but empathetic eye on America and offers us both our unvarnished truth and our capacity for hope." -- Marketplace "I first encountered Kiese Laymon''s writing when I read How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. I was stunned into stillness." --Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist, "Revised and expanded from its original publication in 2013, this collection of forthright, spirited essays (six are new) moves back and forth among Jackson, Mississippi, where Laymon was born and grew up ... A timely and disquieting contribution to urgent conversations about race." -- Kirkus "I first encountered Kiese Laymon's writing when I read How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. I was stunned into stillness." --Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist, "Laymon writes that it took courage for him to face himself, the truth of who he is, who he was. Necessary steps to get to the man he wants to be. The same can be said of the nation, he writes. It takes courage to face things down, call them out and then to act on them. It takes fearless revision." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution "[A] profound work... Laymon brings vulnerability to each page, whether talking about the influence of OutKast and Southern hip-hop on his life, being told that he's not like other Black people, or battling personal demons on the path to becoming a published writer... Moving and meditative, this reckoning on Blackness, manhood, and self adds to Laymon's legacy as an influential writer." -- Library Journal , starred review "Gracefully encompassing pain and power and so much in between, Laymon's artfully piercing essays share truth without limit, and could not feel more timely." -- Booklist , starred review "Revised and expanded from its original publication in 2013, this collection of forthright, spirited essays (six are new) moves back and forth among Jackson, Mississippi, where Laymon was born and grew up ... A timely and disquieting contribution to urgent conversations about race." -- Kirkus "While you might successfully read every page in one sitting (and you'll want to), it will take days to fully absorb their richness. When you read Laymon's writing, you are engaging in a conversation that takes place both on and off the page. This is a book you will find yourself revisiting and discussing, with yourself and others, over and over." -- Southern Review of Books "In this new edition of 'How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America,' Laymon uses 13 different essays to remind me of the power found in vulnerability. Not in how it can 'save us,' but in how it can connect us." -- Bese "The second edition of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, out this month, is still about home and family and ghosts, but from the perspective of a more experienced Laymon, writing from a place he has more experiences in--his home state of Mississippi. [Laymon] will continue to use his love, his voice, to write to his peoples, and he will continue to revise off the echo of his own writing, off his own personal ghosts, off the ghosts of the peoples that came before him, off the written monuments they memorialized. And he can continue to revise and use his voice for his peoples, for his home, for those of us that follow him, and our responses can echo back, as we all examine what is wrong with us, as we all examine how we slowly kill ourselves and those we love in America, as we build homes for ourselves." -- Ploughshares at Emerson College "If a book of essays had a physical bite, it would be this one. Combining every element of our lives, from music, to police, to our mothers, Laymon casts his ever-aware but empathetic eye on America and offers us both our unvarnished truth and our capacity for hope." -- Marketplace "I first encountered Kiese Laymon's writing when I read How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. I was stunned into stillness." --Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist, "I first encountered Kiese Laymon's writing when I read How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. I was stunned into stillness." --Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist, "Laymon writes that it took courage for him to face himself, the truth of who he is, who he was. Necessary steps to get to the man he wants to be. The same can be said of the nation, he writes. It takes courage to face things down, call them out and then to act on them. It takes fearless revision." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution "[A] profound work... Laymon brings vulnerability to each page, whether talking about the influence of OutKast and Southern hip-hop on his life, being told that he's not like other Black people, or battling personal demons on the path to becoming a published writer... Moving and meditative, this reckoning on Blackness, manhood, and self adds to Laymon's legacy as an influential writer." -- Library Journal , starred review "Gracefully encompassing pain and power and so much in between, Laymon's artfully piercing essays share truth without limit, and could not feel more timely." -- Booklist , starred review "Revised and expanded from its original publication in 2013, this collection of forthright, spirited essays (six are new) moves back and forth among Jackson, Mississippi, where Laymon was born and grew up ... A timely and disquieting contribution to urgent conversations about race." -- Kirkus "I first encountered Kiese Laymon's writing when I read How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. I was stunned into stillness." --Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
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