Fresh Air Podcast Episodes featuring James McBride

Best Of: Writer James McBride / RuPaul

Fresh Air - March 14, 2020 04:01 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 32.7K ratings
James McBride's new novel, 'Deacon King Kong,' takes place in 1969, in a Brooklyn housing project similar to the one he grew up in. "In this book and in this community, people generally love each other," he says. RuPaul describes his drag persona as "one-part Cher, two-parts David Bowie, one-par...

Writer James McBride

Fresh Air - March 09, 2020 20:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 32.7K ratings
James McBride's new novel, 'Deacon King Kong,' takes place in 1969, in a Brooklyn housing project similar to the one he grew up in. "In this book and in this community, people generally love each other," he says. McBride is best known for his '95 memoir 'The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute ...