Kim McLarin

PRAISE FOR KIM MCLARIN

"A vibrant, wry voice...McLarin is a writer with significant promise." New York Times

"One of the bravest novelists in recent times." Philadelphia Tribune

Biography

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Kim McLarin is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Taming it Down, Meeting of the Waters and Jump at the Sun, all published by William Morrow. She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Greensboro News & Record and the Associated Press.
She is currently on leave from her position as a writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston to write a book on Liberia.
She is also the new host of Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African American themes, shown on WGBH.

COMING SOON - LETTERS FROM READERS/b>

Hey folks: I've taken down the interview with me. Who cares, really. Soon as I get a minute, I will post some letters from readers I've gotten. This, I tell you, is where the real action is.

In the meantime, some of my favorite quotations:

Henry James:

A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost.

Kurosawa:

To be an artist is to never avert one's eyes. (or something like that).

My grandmother, or someone else wise and elderly:

If everybody likes what you're saying, you're probably not saying much.

Books

Fiction

Jump At The Sun
A searing, unsentimental exploration of what it means to mother and to be mothered.

Meeting of the Waters
"Something rare -- a love story that challenges you to think."

--Philadelphia Inquirer

Taming It Down
"A vibrant, wry voice ... McLarin is a writer of significant promise."

--New York Times

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