Left Bank Books with Ed Pavlić and Kiese Laymon

Left Bank Books presents poet and author Ed Pavlić in conversation with highly acclaimed author Kiese Laymon to discuss Pavlić’s latest novel Another Kind of Madness.

Ed Pavlić is the author of eight collections of poems, including Visiting Hours at the Coloring Line and Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno, both of which were winners of the National Poetry Series. He has published essays, poems, fiction, and dramatic pieces with dozens of outlets, including the New York Times, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and Callaloo. His critical work includes ‘Who Can Afford to Improvise?’ James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners and Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture. A recipient of the Author of the Year Award from the Georgia Writers Association and a fellowship from the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, Pavlić is Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia.

Kiese Laymon — Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Kiese Laymon, Ottilie Schillig Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi, is the author of the novel Long Division and a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. He is also the author of the memoir Heavy.

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