The literary summer of Gawker contributing editor Kiese Laymon continues with the publication of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays, released yesterday. Buy it with his debut novel, Long Division, which came out in June. And read the original essay here.
'My Name Is City': An Excerpt from the Novel Long Division
Contributing editor Kiese Laymon is the author of the novel Long Division, of which this is an excerpt, and the essay collection How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. He is an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at Vassar College.
Dear Uncle Jimmy, We Will Never Ever Know I Love You
This is the first installment of New Year's Absolutions, an exercise in unburdening guilt before 2013.
Gawker contributing editor Kiese Laymon on looking up at Tupac Shakur on the 16th anniversary of his death, for Esquire.
Introducing Our New Weekend Essay Series
Last weekend we published Kiese Laymon's personal history of violence in America. In July, we also ran Cord Jefferson's essay about moving from New York to Los Angeles and Ali Waller's essay about her brief brush with lesbianism.
