I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing … - Kiese Laymon

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An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

Kiese Laymon

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

Comfortable, Interested, Reckoning, Think, Thinking, Today

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In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.

Writing, Always Trying, Connections, Remember, Push

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

American, Character, Honesty, Wish, Writing

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience of American literature. Second, it's really got to be invested in a number of what-if questions.

Audience, Invested, Literature, Number, Numbers, What If

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

Definitely, Enough, Good, Good Enough, Not Good Enough, Person

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

Four, Monsterish, Real, Student, Teacher