I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.
Kiese LaymonI wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.
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 LaymonI'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.
Kiese Laymon