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Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the author of the genre-bending novel Long Division and the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Laymon’s bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Imani Perry is the author of 6 books, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, which received the Pen Bograd-Weld Award for Biography. Perry’s book South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation is a narrative journey through the South, arguing that it is the nation’s heartland for better and worse.
This is an in-person event. Join us for a conversation between two literary luminaries.
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