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Southern Cultures Issue Launch with Kiese Laymon & Tressie McMillan Cottom
Southern Cultures quarterly is thrilled to kick off its 25th anniversary with writer Kiese Laymon. In celebration of its Spring 2019 Issue, "Backward/Forward," Laymon will read from his bestselling memoir Heavy, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize, followed by a conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom.
The "Backward/Forward" Issue of Southern Cultures, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson, explores and documents where the South is going and where it's been. As Laymon writes in Heavy, The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other.
Laymon grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. In his observant, often very funny work, Laymon does battle with the personal and the political: race and family, body and shame, poverty and place. In addition to his provocative memoir Heavy, he is the author of the groundbreaking essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, and the genre-defying novel Long Division.
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has been featured by the Washington Post, NPRs Fresh Air, The Daily Show, the New York Times, Slate, and The Atlantic, among others. She is the author of Thick: And Other Essays and Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy (The New Press) and lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Southern Cultures is an award-winning, peer-reviewed journal published by UNC Press for the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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LocationThe Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History (View)
150 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
United States
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