I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.
Kiese LaymonThe "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" essay was so hard to write because of the memories, the sensory stuff, but also because it didn't follow the form of any essay that I've ever read. And the truth that I was exploring necessitated that obliteration of traditional form, I think.
Kiese LaymonI wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight."
Kiese LaymonLong Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.
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