Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on James McBride Talks About ‘Deacon King Kong’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong by James McBride is a vibrant novel set in a 1960s Brooklyn housing project, following the colorful fallout after an aging church deacon inexplicably shoots a local drug dealer.
Discussed“he'll join us in the studio to discuss Deacon King Kong and how does Rebecca snet approach writing Memoir”
Where to get it
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“you rad the power broker I reread the power broker”
Where to get it
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The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride is a historical novel that won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2014.
Discussed“speaking of fun your last novel the good Lord bird is being turned into a TV series miniseries right by Showtime right starring D Diggs and Ethan Hawk”
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Wolf Hall Trilogy (Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror & the Light)
Discussed“at the top of my list and many people's list was Hillary mantel's the mirror in the light which is her conclusion to her Trilogy about the life of Thomas crom”
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Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener is a sharp, revealing memoir that chronicles a young woman's journey leaving the publishing industry for the fast-paced, morally ambiguous world of Silicon Valley tech startups during the height of the digital boom.
Recommended“so it's uncanny valley by Anna weiner”
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Black Boy
Black Boy by Richard Wright is a powerful autobiographical memoir detailing the author's harrowing upbringing in the Jim Crow South and his eventual escape to Chicago, marked by systemic racism, poverty, and intellectual awakening.
Discussed“the thing I left at home that I want to talk about is Richard wries black boy his Memoir from the mid1 1940s which I finished recently”
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The ice palace
Discussed“don't think the thing I'll mention quickly and secondly because it's so different and strange is this very thin novel called The Ice Palace by a Norwegian writer named tarai vas it's t a r ji and then his last name is V AAS”
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a powerful and haunting debut novel that examines the tragic experiences of a young Black girl growing up in post-depression America who desperately longs for blue eyes.
Discussed“I am also reading a classic um reading The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison”
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Untangled
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adolescence by Lisa K.
Recommended“and the third book I also can only take in in bits and I actually think is better best read slowly and that is untangled guiding teenage girls through the seven transitions into adulthood by Lisa Dore”
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Other mentions in this episode (12) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and how does Rebecca snet approach writing Memoir she'll be here to talk about her new book Recollections of my non-existence”
“In 2013 the good Lord bird in between there was a short story collection five karat soul and his new novel is Deacon King Kong”
“James McBride's newest book is called Deacon King Kong so here's a request for our listeners”
“that was Rebecca snet reading from the opening pages of her new Memoir Recollections of my non-existence”
“and so it's not a memoir about my family which I've written about in other Memoir like books including the far away nearby”
“come through your work originally with your 2008 essay men explained things to me”
“more than a decade since the first one Wolf Hall was released the trilogy has been really groundbreaking commercially and culturally”
“shortly after she wrote the opening sequences of Wolf Hall which depict crumel as a young man being beaten by his father”
“well you may remember that a few weeks ago I had read Bad Blood by John KERO which is the Theos story about Elizabeth Holmes”
“I think it Peters out a little bit for me in the last section because similarly actually to Invisible Man which I read recently there are these sort of int party very mid-century scenes”
“the latest book by Emanuel carrer which is called 97,1 196 words”
“the other book that I'm reading also in bits is Stony the road reconstruction white supremacy and the rise of Jim Crow by Henry Lewis Gates Jr”