Kiese Laymon: “We Must Be Twice As Good As White People to Get Half As Much”

'We sometimes hear of artists selling the rights to their work – but we rarely hear of them buying those rights back. That is what award-winning author and professor Kiese Laymon has done. Eight years after their original publication, he is re-releasing two books. One is his debut novel, Long Division. The other is a bestselling collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Laymon speaks with Michel Martin of  about why revising these works was so important to him.' -- Amanpour and Company