“At our house,” writes Kiese Laymon — recalling a Mississippi childhood in a startling, essential new memoir, “Heavy” — “there was no pantry. There was hardly any food other than spoiled pimento ...

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Heavy lives up to its name. With extraordinary craft and pain, Kiese Laymon’s stark memoir chronicles one man’s scarring journey into adulthood, sentence after sentence piercing in its emotional ...

Writer and MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner Kiese Laymon has launched an initiative to help Mississippi high schoolers explore their love for writing while learning about the state’s rich history.

Writer Kiese Laymon has had the kind of year every first-time author dreams of: two books published to critical acclaim. But none of that came easily. The title of his most recent book, an essay ...

COLUMBUS — Maddox Laymon already made history on Saturday. On Sunday, he added more. First, he became the first freshman in Muskingum Valley League history to wrestle for a state championship. He did ...

Commencement season has started, and some heavy hitters are speaking at some HBCUs this year. Kiese Laymon has joined that lineup. Over the weekend, Jackson State University graduates walked the stage ...

Cady Lang is a staff writer at TIME. She covers culture, focusing on identity, celebrity, and fashion. How do you love authentically when lies feel so familiar? That’s the question Kiese Laymon ...

NPR speaks with writer Kiese Laymon about his new children's book "City Summer, Country Summer," in which three Black boys form a deep connection during one transformative summer in the South. When ...

It is rare that I will purchase a second copy of a book that I already own and have read more than once, but I am making an exception with the recently revised and re-issued edition of Kiese Laymon’s ...

New England winters are brutal affairs, with dry, driving winds that lash at those walking from here to there. On this night, but not just this one, anyone who spied me exiting one of Central Square’s ...