Writers in the Loft - James McBride
Date and Time
Monday Apr 18, 2016
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
Monday, April 18 | 7PM
Location
The Music Hall Loft
131 Congress Street, Portsmouth
Fees/Admission
$42, $40 - Includes hardcover book and bar beverage
Description
The National Book Award-winning author of the bestseller The Good Lord Bird comes to town with his first nonfiction work since his celebrated memoir The Color of Water (two years on the NY Times bestseller list and translated in 16 languages.) When McBride received a tip that promised to uncover the “real James Brown,” he set off on a trail that would reveal the influences that created this genius of soul music. Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul is more than a book about James Brown. It is an unsettling metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South, black and white, rich and poor.
