The Porch has provided courses, community engagement, entertainment and inspiration for a decade and counting, and supporting the nonprofit was extra fun this year because the annual fundraiser featured one of the South’s most important writers working today. Kiese Laymon is the author of Heavy: An American Memoir, the novel Long Division and the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. He’s the realest writer you’ll find toiling away today, writing with the kind of control, immediacy and honesty that rattles the bones. He was joined by Danté Stewart, author of Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle, in a conversation that was pure love. Kudos to the organization for keeping a finger on the pulse of what’s being written in and about the South.
Best Literary Party
