How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Kiese Laymon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-4088-6817-1 (ISBN)

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Kiese Laymon grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. That was where he began to seek to create an honest account of living in the US, a country striving to declare itself multi-cultural, post-racial and mostly innocent. Drawing on his own personal experiences, these essays are Laymon's attempt to deal with many issues occupying America today, from race, identity and writing to music, celebrity and violence. Through letters between his own disparate family members, pleas to performers, recollections of his own failures, analysis of the growing culture of fear in the media and detailed accounts of his clashes with the US education system, Laymon gets closer not only to the truth behind himself, but to the promises behind the promised land.

Kiese Laymon was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He earned an MFA from Indiana University and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Vassar College. He has written essays and stories for numerous publications. Laymon was selected a member of the Root 100 in 2013 and 2014, and is the recipient of the 2015-2016 Grisham Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Mississippi. He is also the author of a novel, Long Division, which won the Saroyan International Prize for Writing. kieselaymon.com @KieseLaymon

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.3.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
ISBN-10	1-4088-6817-2 / 1408868172
ISBN-13	978-1-4088-6817-1 / 9781408868171
Zustand	Neuware