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A travel memoir with a queer, Black sensibility

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‘How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir’By Shayla Lawsonc.2024, Tiny Reparations Books$29/320 pages Joan Didion, one of the greatest writers and journalists of the 20th century and 2000s, wrote superbly crafted essays – telling engaging stories about the places she traveled to.

Reading her, you sensed Didion reacting personally to her travels, and, as a writer, clocking it. To write in stories for her readers.

Shayla Lawson, a nonbinary, Black, disabled poet and journalist, is the Joan Didion of our time. Their new work, “How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir,” is a provocative, impeccably crafted, hard-to-put down, travel memoir in essays. (Lawson uses they/them pronouns.) Lawson is author of “This is Major,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle and the LAMBDA Literary Award, and the author of two poetry collections, “A Special Education in Human Being” and “I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean.” They have written for New York Magazine, Salon, ESPN and Paper, and earned fellowships from the Yaddo and the MacDowell Artist Colony.

Yet, despite this impressive track record, Lawson, who grew up in Kentucky, and has lived and traveled everywhere from the Netherlands to Brazil to Los Angeles to Kyoto, Japan to Mexico to Shanghai, had to wait nine years before a publisher would wrap their head around releasing a travel memoir in essays.

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