Kiese Laymon On His Book; “How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America”

Update: 2020-11-16

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Marc and Kiese discuss Kiese's decision to reissue his book How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Kiese reveals his motivation for reissuing the book with six new additional essays, how little he got paid for his first publishing deal, thinking he would never live to see people read his art, and how a popular book written by Toni Morrison taught him to "see".

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Kiese Laymon On His Book; “How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America”

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Kiese Laymon On His Book; “How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America”

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Kiese Laymon On His Book; “How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America”