Sister, the global content company co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has won the rights to James McBride’s Deacon King Kong to develop as a television series. The ...

James McBride’s new book, Deacon King Kong, is set in a Brooklyn housing project much like the one he grew up in. Pic credit: @ImageCollect.com/Globe-Photos James ...

In a Brooklyn housing project in 1969, an old church deacon known as Sportcoat walks into the courtyard in the middle of the day and shoots the neighborhood drug dealer. There are lots of witnesses.

James McBride has teamed with global content company Sister to develop his latest novel, Deacon King Kong, as a TV series. The news comes a day after the novel, published in March, was made an ...

Award-winning author James McBride has built a career exploring American culture and identity through storytelling. His latest book “Deacon King Kong” looks at how communities pull together in the ...

James McBride’s new novel, “Deacon King Kong,” focuses on a New York phenomenon with its central character, who is sort of the unelected mayor of his neighborhood. And while McBride wrote about Deacon ...