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Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American social and cultural commentary. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in Mississippi. Laymon's writing is smart, unflinchingly honest, lacerating, and unexpectedly funny.In How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, Laymon deals in depth with his own personal story, filled with trials (and reflections on those trials) that illuminate underappreciated aspects of contemporary American life. As revealed in the book's title essay, Laymon attended three colleges before earning his undergraduate degree. He was suspended from the first of these institutions, Millsaps College, following a probationary period resulting from a controversial essay he published on campus. As the school's president described it, the "Key Essay in question was written by Kiese Laymon, a controversial writer who consistently editorializes on race issues." Controversy seemed to follow this young writer, but as he himself puts it, "my job is to ask questions,

Author

Laymon, Kiese

Publisher

Agate Bolden

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572847262

Subjects

Literary Collections, Science, Memoir

Rating

4.6 / 5 (583 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14