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James McBride: Tracking the Legend of James Brown

Author of the classic memoir The Color of Water, James McBride travels the country tracking the legend of James Brown in his new work of nonfiction, Kill ’Em and Leave.

What he discovers is a complicated story of race, music, the South and America today. McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for his novel The Good Lord Bird, which was praised by the NBA judges for possessing a “voice as comic and original as any we have heard since Mark Twain — daringly irreverent, but also wise, funny and affecting.”

Read an excerpt from James McBride’s new book, Kill ‘Em and Leave.
Copyright © 2016 by James McBride. Reprinted by arrangement with Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.











When: Mon., Apr. 4, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $24
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Author of the classic memoir The Color of Water, James McBride travels the country tracking the legend of James Brown in his new work of nonfiction, Kill ’Em and Leave.

What he discovers is a complicated story of race, music, the South and America today. McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for his novel The Good Lord Bird, which was praised by the NBA judges for possessing a “voice as comic and original as any we have heard since Mark Twain — daringly irreverent, but also wise, funny and affecting.”

Read an excerpt from James McBride’s new book, Kill ‘Em and Leave.
Copyright © 2016 by James McBride. Reprinted by arrangement with Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

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