James McBride

James McBride appears in the following:

James McBride on 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store' (Get Lit)

Monday, October 02, 2023

We air highlights of our September Get Lit book club event with author James McBride!

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Get Lit with All Of It: Audience Q&A with James McBride

Friday, July 31, 2020

James McBride takes questions from our virtual audience at our Get Lit with All Of It event. 

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Get Lit with All Of It: James McBride, 'Deacon King Kong'

Friday, July 31, 2020

We air highlights from our conversation with James McBride about his novel Deacon King Kong, from our virtual Get Lit with All Of It event.

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Get Lit with All Of It: James McBride

Thursday, May 07, 2020

Highlights from our Get Lit with All Of It book club event with James McBride. 

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Get Lit with All Of It: McBride Audience Q&A

Thursday, May 07, 2020

James McBride takes questions from our virtual audience at our Get Lit with All Of It event. 

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Get Lit: James McBride Previews 'Deacon King Kong'

Tuesday, April 07, 2020

A rebroadcast of our conversation with April Get Lit with All Of It author, James McBride. 

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James McBride, 'Deacon King Kong'

Tuesday, March 03, 2020

James McBride joins us to announce the release of his new book, Deacon King Kong: A Novel, which comes out March 3 and is our next selection for the Get Lit with All Of It book club.

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James McBride on James Brown

Friday, April 08, 2016

Musician and author James McBride tells James Brown's story and what it explains about American culture even now.

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James McBride and The Good Lord Bird

Friday, August 29, 2014

The jazz musician and author of The Good Lord Bird says he wanted to write a book about slavery and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry that people would actually enjoy reading.

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In the Studio With James McBride

Friday, December 13, 2013

James McBride was a professional saxophonist for decades before he took up writing, and as an author, he isn’t doing too poorly. His first book, the memoir The Color of Water: A Blac...

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Blues Album Honors JFK; The Beatles' 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'; James McBride

Friday, November 22, 2013

In this episode: Soundcheck listens back to selections from the album Can't Keep From Crying: Topical Blues on the Death of President Kennedy, recorded in the weeks after the assassination. 

The New York Times writer and Beatles expert Allan Kozinn talks about his new book, Got That Something! How the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” Changed Everything.

And, we revisit a recent interview and session from author and musician James McBride, who's book The Good Lord Bird recently won the National Book Award.

 

James McBride: Traditional Spirituals, In The Studio

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

The National Book Award-winning author and composer James McBride discusses his latest book and performs traditional spirituals with a quintet of singers and musicians in the Soundcheck studio.

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Madonna Week: Madonna's Movie Roles; Weird Al Yankovic; James McBride On 'The Good Lord Bird'

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

In this episode: Rafer Guzman and Kristen Meinzer, of the The Takeaway’s Movie Date podcast, look back at Madonna’s career on the silver screen. 

Plus: Songwriter and pop parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic talks about his latest work, a children's book called My New Teacher and Me!

And: Jazz musician and best-selling novelist James McBride discusses his new book The Good Lord Bird and brings his band in for a live performance. 

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Photo Month: Change for the Better, Change for the Worse

Monday, July 21, 2008

Last week, listeners submitted their photos to the Brian Lehrer Show flickr pool under the theme "Change for the Better, Change for the Worse." There were over almost 350 entries - 25 or so of which will be selected to be part of the Slideluck ...

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Free, Yet Enslaved

Thursday, February 07, 2008

James McBride, musician and author of Song Yet Sung, talks about Harriet Tubman, contemporary black culture, and--perhaps--why Holiday Inn cures his writer's block.

Song Yet Sung is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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