Book Exploder: James McBride - Deacon King Kong

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  You're listening to Book Exploder,

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  where authors break down a passage from their work to show us how they write.

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  I'm Rishi K. Shirwe.

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  And I'm Susan Orlean.

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  This is the last episode of Book Exploder.

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  you can still go back and listen to the first seven episodes with Susan Orlean,

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  Min Jin Lee, Michael Cunningham, Carmen Maria Machado,

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  Tayari Jones, Celeste Ng, and George Saunders.

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  And today I'm speaking with James McBride, author of Deacon King Kong, which was published in 2020.

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  In 2015, President Obama awarded James McBride with the National Humanities Medal.

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  And in 2021, Deacon King Kong won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

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  Susan, when did you first read James McBride?

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  Actually, I first ended up listening to James McBride.

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  As it happens, the very first audiobook I ever listened to was The Color of Water,

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  which is a memoir that McBride published.

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  And I couldn't wait to get my hands on Deacon King Kong.

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  It's hilarious.

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  In fact...

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