Marlon and Jake Read Dead People
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Marlon and Jake Read Dead People is a podcast hosted by the Man Booker Prize-winning and internationally bestselling author Marlon James and his editor, Jake Morrissey, Executive Editor at Riverhead Books. In each episode, Marlon and Jake talk about authors—specifically dead authors. Authors they like. Authors they hate. Great books, terrible books, and books they love that you’d never expect them to. As a writer and an editor, Marlon and Jake have read thousands of books between them, and they’re not shy in expressing their opinions about them. Sometimes they’ll agree, sometimes they won’t, but in every episode, they’ll tell you what they think— uncensored and with no holds barred. (That’s why the authors have to be dead.) So, listen along to hear about the spectacularly good, the hilariously bad, and the brutally honest.

Questions, Questions

This week Marlon and Jake answer some of the questions that listeners have asked. What dead author or book did they initially hate but have come aroun...
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Trashy Novels To Die For

This week Marlon and Jake dive into one of life’s great guilty pleasures: the trashy novel. Do such books provide intellectual stimulation or lessons ...
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Memoir and Autobiography

This week Marlon and Jake delve into the very real lives of very dead writers. From Gore Vidal to Frank McCourt, Ulysses S. Grant to Gabriel García Má...
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Myths, Legends and Fables

This week Marlon and Jake go back in time-way, way back-and revisit the myths and legends that have terrified and tantalized us for centuries. Gods an...
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Epic Fantasy

This week Marlon and Jake venture into fantasy: the imagined worlds of dead writers—from quests and dragons to magic carpets and pregnant kings. As th...
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Dead Authors for a Desert Island

Marlon and Jake are back-this time to discuss which dead author they'd take with them to a desert island to reread over and over again-as well as whic...
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Literary Grudge Match

Marlon and Jake kick off the first episode by taking on some literary giants in a grudge match for the ages. This time it's Charles Dickens vs. Anthon...
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Dead Authors for a Desert Island

Marlon and Jake are back-this time to discuss which dead author they'd take with them to a desert island to reread over and over again-as well as whic...
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