James McBride Masters Historical Fiction

The Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Kate often says that if she were a writer she would have trouble reading James McBride. It's hard not to hear a mic drop when you close the back cover. He is a master of storytelling; his sentences so packed with history, humor, and meaning that at times you forget what he was talking about, but you won't mind a bit. His writing often knocks off our socks, and his new novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, is no exception. For our bookstore this week? We let James choose one of his favorites, Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, New Jersey. Books mentioned in this week's podcast: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Kill 'em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride The Good Lord Bird by James McBride Song Yet Sung by James McBride Five-Carat Soul by James McBride Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride Deacon King Kong by James McBride Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.9	Welcome, folks, to the bookcase.
0:38.3	I think we're down, Kate, to the second shelf of the bookcase by now.
0:41.8	We've sort of filled up the first part of the bookcase, haven't we?
0:44.4	Well, yeah, but I think we've stopped well before footnotes.
0:47.2	I don't think we're in footnotes yet.
0:48.8	I think we're in good shape there.
0:50.4	Hi, I'm Kate.
0:51.3	I'm the co-host.
0:58.1	Indeed. And we are delighted this week to be featuring James McBride. He has written some wonderful books. And some books actually you may not know as well,
1:04.0	but he wrote The Color of Water many years ago, which was probably, I think, Kate, his most
1:07.6	biographical novel. Then wrote Deacon King Kong, which was just one of the
1:12.0	best writing experiences of my life. And he has now got a new book out, the Heaven and Earth
1:16.4	grocery store, which is just out and is a wonderful novel with, I think, very rich characters.
1:23.0	Oh, yeah. And, you know, James McBride is one of those writers. Then when you see him in the new
1:27.0	book section, you're like, oh, yeah, he's got a new one.
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