Conversations with Kiese Laymon

Constance Bailey

ISBN 10: 1496859049 / ISBN 13: 9781496859044

Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2025

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Conversations with Kiese Laymon | Constance Bailey | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2025 | University Press of Mississippi | EAN 9781496859044 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Easy Access System Europe, Mustamäe Tee 50, 10621 TALLINN, ESTLAND, gpsr[dot]requests[at]easproject[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conversations with Kiese Laymon
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496859049
• ISBN 13: 9781496859044
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 9D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 9 millimeters depth
• Weight: 237 grams
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Synopsis

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 into 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 Beginnings, Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped, and Natasha Trethewey’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 reflects 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.

About the Author

Constance Bailey is assistant professor of African American literature and folklore at Georgia State University. Her research focuses on Black women’s comedy and humor, Black speculative fiction, and African American folklore and oral traditions.