“I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.” ThinkingTodayComfortableMajorsReckoningConfessing Author:Kiese Laymon
“The "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" essay was so hard to write because of the memories, the sensory stuff, but also because it didn't follow the form of any essay that I've ever read. And the truth that I was exploring necessitated that obliteration of traditional form, I think.” ThinkingWritingHardFormStuffMemoriesTraditionalExploringEssaysSensoryKilling Yourself Author:Kiese Laymon
“I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight."” ThinkingBookBodyWantedUnderstandingBlackGayTiredSexualityUnafraid Author:Kiese Laymon
“Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.” ThinkingLongBookPagesImpulseDivision Author:Kiese Laymon
