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Book Exploder: James McBride - Deacon King Kong

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How Much Work Do You Do Before You Write That First Sentence?

"When you live in a community where you're powerless to do much, you learn to laugh at a lot," he says. "I wake up every day knowing that nothing really is wrong and everything happens that's supposed to be" The book has an abiding qualities of the affection among even people who are antagonists, author says. He does not plot out his stories before sitting down to write them.

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