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Books by Kiese Laymon
  | | How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Essays (Paperback Or Softback) by Kiese Laymon Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2020 by Scribner Book Company, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-982170-82-0, ISBN: 1-982170-82-4 "An hour later, CM&I had a new player on its bus named D'Andre Brown. He was headed down to Jackson, Mississippi. On January 2, 2004, a month after Brown left Our Savior for CM&I, a van carrying Brown's former teammates flipped on North ..." |
 | | Heavy(Reprint) An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-2566-9, ISBN: 1-5011-2566-4 "*Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize—genre-bending essayist and noveli ..." |
 | | Long Division A Novel (Paperback) by Kiese Laymon Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2021 by Simon & Schuster, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-982174-82-8, ISBN: 1-982174-82-X "Brilliantly “skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racism” (Publishers Weekly), this dreamlike “smart, funny, and sharp” (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the ..." |
 | | Heavy An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0575-7, ISBN: 1-5266-0575-9 |
 | | Heavy(1st Edition) An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-2565-2, ISBN: 1-5011-2565-6 "*Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* *WINNER of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and FINALIST for the Kirkus Prize * In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon ..." |
 | | How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America(1st Edition) by Kiese Laymon Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2013 by Agate Bolden ISBN-13: 978-1-932841-77-0, ISBN: 1-932841-77-6 "Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American writing. "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America" is a collection of his essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in Mississippi. In this collection, Laymon deals in depth with his own personal story, which is filled with trials and reflections th ..." |
 | | Long Division(1st Edition) by Kiese Laymon Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2013 by Agate Bolden ISBN-13: 978-1-932841-72-5, ISBN: 1-932841-72-5 "Kiese Laymon's debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that's alternately funny, lacerating, and wise. The book contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, 14-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next da ..." |
 | | afrocentric Comics(1st Edition) by Juliana "Jewels" Smith, Ronald Nelson, Mike Hampton, Kiese Laymon Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2017 by Pm Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62963-448-7, ISBN: 1-62963-448-4 "This unflinching visual and literary tour-de-force tackles the most pressing issues of the day--including racism, patriarchy, gentrification, police violence, and the housing crisis--with humor and biting satire. When gentrification strikes the neighborhood surrounding Ronald Reagan University, Naima Pepper recruits a group of disgruntled undergrads of color to launch the first and only anti-gentrification social networking site, mydias ..." |
 | | Heavy(Large Print) An American Memoir (Thorndike Press Biographies and Memoirs) by Kiese Laymon Library, 345 Pages, Published 2019 by Thorndike Press Large Print Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-6142-1, ISBN: 1-4328-6142-5 "*Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Kirkus Prize Finalist* In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on ..." |
 | | Heavy An American Memoir (CD-Audio) by Kiese Laymon Published 2018 by Simon & Schuster Audio, N/A ISBN-13: 978-1-5082-6582-5, ISBN: 1-5082-6582-8 |
 | | How to Slowly Kill Yourself and s in America Essays by Kiese Laymon, Kevin Free Cd, Published 2017 by Audible Studios On Brilliance Audio Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-5366-4725-9, ISBN: 1-5366-4725-X "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, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in the rural Mississippi Gulf Coast. Laymon's writing is unflinchingly honest, while also being smart, lace ..." |
 | | Long Division(Unabridged) by Kiese Laymon, Sean Crisden Cd, Published 2013 by Tantor Audio Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4526-6702-7, ISBN: 1-4526-6702-0 "Long Division contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he's sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. Before leaving, City is given a strange book witho ..." |
 | | Long Division(Unabridged) by Kiese Laymon, Sean Crisden Cd, Published 2013 by Tantor Media Inc Audiolivro, Cd, Versão Integral ISBN-13: 978-1-4526-1702-2, ISBN: 1-4526-1702-3 "Long Division contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he's sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. Before leaving, City is given a strange book witho ..." |
 | | How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon Digital, 144 Pages, Published 2013 by Agate Bolden ISBN-13: 978-1-57284-726-2, ISBN: 1-57284-726-3 "Kiese Laymon. failed to let him know how thankful we were for his work. I cry not when I think about his dead whitened body, his ... II. Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That's why most of us do ... Like Pryor, and the lesserknown Robin Harris, Bernie Mac seemed happy to share the experience of suffering on the edge of the world with us." |
 | | Long Division (Library Edition) by Kiese Laymon, Sean Crisden Cd, Published 2013 by Tantor Audio Audiolivro, Cd, Versão Integral ISBN-13: 978-1-4526-4702-9, ISBN: 1-4526-4702-X "Long Division contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he's sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. Before leaving, City is given a strange book witho ..." |
 | | bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Particular Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84614-966-5, ISBN: 1-84614-966-5 "“yrsa daley-ward’s bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. . . . she lays her hands on the pulse of the thing. . . . an expert storyteller. of the rarest. and purest kind.” —nayyirah waheed, author of salt.From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about the heart, life, and the inner self. Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark. The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection bone are exactly that: reflections ..." |
 | | The Oliver Stone Experience(1st Edition) by Matt Zoller Seitz, Kiese Laymon, Ramin Bahrani, Oliver Stone Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2016 by Abrams ISBN-13: 978-1-4197-1790-1, ISBN: 1-4197-1790-1 "Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective—an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial writer, director, and cinematic historian in interview form. Over the course of five years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden) and New York Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz (The Wes Anderson Colle ..." |
 | | Bigger Than Bravery Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic (Paperback) by Valerie Boyd, Alice Walker, Kiese Laymon Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2022 by Lookout Books 2022-11-15, North Carolina, Wilmington ISBN-13: 978-1-940596-47-1, ISBN: 1-940596-47-5 "Sorrow and outrage have their say, but the stories in these pages are bright with family, music, food, and home, teaching us how to nourish ourselves and our communities." |
 | | How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Essays by Kiese Laymon 160 Pages, Published 2020 by Simon And Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-982170-83-7, ISBN: 1-982170-83-2 "This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences, while simultaneously examining the world—Mississippi, the South, the United ..." |
 | | Heavy An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0573-3, ISBN: 1-5266-0573-2 "Just wow' ROXANE GAY 'Unflinchingly honest' RENI EDDO-LODGE 'An act of truth-telling unlike any other I can think of' ALEXANDER CHEE A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR The story of the black male experience in America you've never read before Kiese ..." |
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