Lecture

“What’s the Point in Lying If You Don’t Want to Get Caught?” – Kiese Laymon

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 from 4:10-5:30 p.m.

Location: Bayley Room, 2nd floor Beeghly Library
In partnership with the Department of English’s Poets and Writers Series

Lecture is free and open to all.

Kiese Laymon is a black southern writer and a Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. Laymon is the author of the novel, Long Division and a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. In this lecture the author addresses the intersection of writing and activism through the lens of his practice.