The Smartest People are From the South with Kiese Laymon
What happens when the place that made you is also the place the rest of the country dismisses? MacArthur genius grant recipient and author of Heavy, Kiese Laymon grew up in a pink shotgun house on two acres of land in Forest, Mississippi — and he never felt big there. That smallness, he says, is exactly why his art resonates. Laymon sits down with Aisha Nyandoro to talk about Southern genius, memory, and the industries committed to making sure Americans don't look back at what the South has always contained.
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