James McBride on Deacon King Kong

Our guest today is non-other than James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird.

James is with us to discuss his latest book Deacon King Kong, a captivating novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting in a Brooklyn housing project.

Listen in as we go in-depth with James on what it was like to pen Deacon King Kong.

 

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We're no longer producing new episodes of this show, but you can find us now at Poured Over on Apple Podcasts. Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper. The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today's most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we’re talking about.