Books by Kiese Laymon
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review 1: Kiese Laymon brought it in Long Division, playing around with time, space, place and race in a way that was dizzying at times (and I mean "dizzying" as a positive here). He brought deep South poverty and relationship to life here. Laymon's Long Division read like a memoir to me, ...
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review 1: Reading "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America," admiring Kiese Laymon's genius, I marveled, "Laymon is the next Richard Wright." Finishing it, I caught myself: "no, not Richard Wright...Kiese Laymon is the next Kiese Laymon: a canon-ready stand alone." Do note, how...