The Resource How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays, Kiese Laymon
How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays, Kiese Laymon
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The item How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays, Kiese Laymon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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- Summary
- A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the'star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful (NPR)... Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. 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 States'that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon's profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience, trumpeting why he is'simply one of the most talented writers in America (New York magazine)
- Language
- eng
- Edition
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- Revised edition.
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 159 pages :
- Note
- Originally published in 2013
- Contents
-
- Author's note #2
- Mississippi : an awakening, in days
- What I pledge allegiance to
- Da art of storytellin' (a prequel)
- How they do in Oxford
- Hey Mama : an essay in emails
- Echo : Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon
- Daydreaming with D'Andre Brown
- You are the second person
- Hip hop stole my Southern black boy
- Our kind of ridiculous
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America
- The worst of white folk
- You will never know
- Isbn
- 9781982170820
- Label
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays
- Title
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America
- Title remainder
- essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Kiese Laymon
- Subject
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- trueAfrican American men
- African American novelists
- African American novelists -- Biography
- African American teachers
- African American teachers -- Biography
- Biographies
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- trueGrowing up
- Jackson (Miss.) -- Biography
- Laymon, Kiese
- Laymon, Kiese
- trueMississippi
- Mississippi -- Jackson
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism
- trueSouthern States
- trueAfrican American families
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the'star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful (NPR)... Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. 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 States'that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon's profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience, trumpeting why he is'simply one of the most talented writers in America (New York magazine)
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10934648
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Laymon, Kiese
- Dewey number
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- 814.6
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3612.A959
- LC item number
- Z46 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Laymon, Kiese
- African American novelists
- African American teachers
- Jackson (Miss.)
- Laymon, Kiese
- African American novelists
- African American teachers
- Mississippi
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- essays
- Label
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays, Kiese Laymon
- Note
- Originally published in 2013
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Author's note #2 -- Mississippi : an awakening, in days -- What I pledge allegiance to -- Da art of storytellin' (a prequel) -- How they do in Oxford -- Hey Mama : an essay in emails -- Echo : Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon -- Daydreaming with D'Andre Brown -- You are the second person -- Hip hop stole my Southern black boy -- Our kind of ridiculous -- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America -- The worst of white folk -- You will never know
- Control code
- on1184237030
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
-
- Revised edition.
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 159 pages :
- Isbn
- 9781982170820
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1184237030
- Label
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays, Kiese Laymon
- Note
- Originally published in 2013
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Author's note #2 -- Mississippi : an awakening, in days -- What I pledge allegiance to -- Da art of storytellin' (a prequel) -- How they do in Oxford -- Hey Mama : an essay in emails -- Echo : Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon -- Daydreaming with D'Andre Brown -- You are the second person -- Hip hop stole my Southern black boy -- Our kind of ridiculous -- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America -- The worst of white folk -- You will never know
- Control code
- on1184237030
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
-
- Revised edition.
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 159 pages :
- Isbn
- 9781982170820
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1184237030
Subject
- trueAfrican American men
- African American novelists
- African American novelists -- Biography
- African American teachers
- African American teachers -- Biography
- Biographies
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- trueGrowing up
- Jackson (Miss.) -- Biography
- Laymon, Kiese
- Laymon, Kiese
- trueMississippi
- Mississippi -- Jackson
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism
- trueSouthern States
- trueAfrican American families
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