Kiese Laymon, Author of ‘Long Division,’ Speaks Up for Black Boys and Girls owl.li/v0UW2 When Kiese Laymon, a novelist and essayist who was featured at the Tennessee Williams Festival, was talking Sunday afternoon, he dated a certain event as having happened near the time “when I got kicked out of school.” According to Gawker, I’m one of the 304,342 who’d read about Laymon’s expulsion from Millsaps College in his essay “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others In America.” So there was no need for him to elaborate, no need for him to detail the racial tension he felt at Millsaps and his less than polite response.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:29:42 +0000