
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


This week we're joined by returning guest Asali Solomon (author of The Days of Afrekete) to discuss Kiese Laymon's award-winning memoir, Heavy. We talk about what people expect from memoir, and why readers are sometimes put off by complicated stories without easy resolutions.
By Mike Ingram and Tom McAllister4.4
267267 ratings
This week we're joined by returning guest Asali Solomon (author of The Days of Afrekete) to discuss Kiese Laymon's award-winning memoir, Heavy. We talk about what people expect from memoir, and why readers are sometimes put off by complicated stories without easy resolutions.

91,131 Listeners

43,964 Listeners

38,909 Listeners

3,337 Listeners

3,951 Listeners

2,255 Listeners

2,112 Listeners

4,279 Listeners

112,347 Listeners

15,844 Listeners

10,820 Listeners

846 Listeners

12,456 Listeners

8,839 Listeners

595 Listeners