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美國通 60 傾聽他人說故事： 2023年最暢銷的小說“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” 作者James McBride 愛說他是吹薩克風手(saxophone player ) Percival Everett tears down and rebuilds a cultural landmark ‘Huck Finn’ in his new novel, “James.” Swifties are a force of nature! npr 兩則'a possible victim of a crime、' "We want answers, accountability, and safer planes" Human composting lets you replenish the earth after death

His Novel Sold a Million Copies. James McBride Isn’t Sure How He Feels About That.

“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” has been a runaway critical and commercial success. When you’ve been David all your life, everything changes “when you become Goliath.”

When people ask the author James McBride what he does for work, he tells them he’s a saxophone player.


His debut, “The Color of Water,” a memoir about his white Jewish mother, Ruth, got off to a slow start but began spreading by word of mouth once it was out in paperback. Eventually, it sold more than 2 million copies.

傾聽他人說故事“He’ll talk to everyone and pull information from them somehow.”

書店支持： And then there’s the strength of the novel itself, which is a story of justice, love and community that has resonated with readers, she said.

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 “He manages, either by intention or by some other alchemy, to be able to hold all four of those strains in his hands at once.”

“There are writers who are interested in story... in character, ... place ... voice,”


teaching at New York University, where he is a writer in residence, but his apartment building is a simple brick co-op without fancy amenities.

Even his garden skews toward common sense....But not flowers. “All the practical stuff,” he said. 食用蔬菜....


John le Carré. He likes le Carré’s voice and his narrative power, McBride said, but he also read his memoir and a biography because he was curious about the man.

“Here was a guy who was really successful. Super successful. Far more successful than I am,” McBride said. “I just wanted to see if he was happy, you know?”


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/books/booksupdate/james-mcbride-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html

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Percival Everett tears down and rebuilds a cultural landmark in his new novel, “James.”Credit...

‘Huck Finn’ Is a Masterpiece. This Retelling Just Might Be, Too.


“James” takes Mark Twain’s classic tale and places the enslaved sidekick, Jim, at its center.


“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the critic Lionel Trilling wrote, is “one of the world’s great books and one of the central documents of American culture,” in part because it grows with its readers. Mark Twain’s 1884 novel is a catapulting adventure story when one is 10, but its amplitude is grasped only in adulthood.


Everett flips the perspective on the events in “Huckleberry Finn.” He gives us the story as a coolly electric first-person narrative in the voice of Jim, the novel’s enslaved runaway.. .

Everett does not reprint the famous warning that greets the reader at the start of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” Motives, morals and plot are here in abundance, of course. And Everett shoots what is certain to be this book’s legion of readers straight through the heart.


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