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In Conversation: On Deacon King Kong
November 21, 2020
In James McBride’s Deacon King Kong, an old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the crowded courtyard of a Brooklyn project and shoots the local drug dealer, a violent act that causes the lives of those impacted to overlap in unexpected ways. McBride is speaking with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. author of The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II.