Death, Sex & Money - James McBride Resets
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The best-selling author of The Color of Water lived large, and he lost his creative focus. Now, he drives a pickup and teaches music in Brooklyn, and he's happier than he's ever been.
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| 0:00.0 | Listener supported WNYC Studios. |
| 0:07.0 | It was wonderful to stand up in front of those people at the National Book Award and give my little talk. |
| 0:14.0 | But when the thing was over, as soon it was over, I took that trophy and that 10 grand, and I jumped in my little car and I drove right back home, made myself a tuna fish sandwich, and that was the end of that. |
| 0:24.7 | I wasn't partying on the floor until 4 in the morning. |
| 0:27.2 | I've had that, and it ain't worth nothing. |
| 0:33.3 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:36.7 | Well, it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. |
| 0:40.9 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:44.3 | You haven't shared sex with him. |
| 0:46.2 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:48.3 | Fine leather goods. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm on a sale. |
| 0:53.5 | James McBride has a look. |
| 0:56.5 | He often wears a hat perched atop his head |
| 0:59.1 | and a big earring in his left ear. |
| 1:02.0 | He's cool, and the look works with a t-shirt or a t-shirts, |
| 1:06.0 | like the one he wore at the National Book Award ceremony. |
| 1:09.0 | The winner of the National Book Award for 2013 is the Good Lord Bird by James McBride. |
| 1:15.2 | James McBride won the Fiction Award last year for his book about a former slave who accompanies John Brown on his historic raid. |
| 1:23.4 | Actually, I didn't prepare a speech because I really didn't think I was going to, I didn't think I would win today. |
| 1:32.1 | But I would like to say that... |
| 1:33.3 | At first, James McBride was uncharacteristically flustered. |
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