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Dead Authors for a Desert Island

Dead Authors for a Desert Island

FromMarlon and Jake Read Dead People


Dead Authors for a Desert Island

FromMarlon and Jake Read Dead People

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Jan 27, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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 which ones they'd happily leave lost at sea. From the Jamaica of Wide Sargasso Sea to the lonely New England of Shirley Jackson, Marlon and Jake get fired up over the books they vehemently love and the ones they equally hate. Marlon explores his complicated love for James Clavell and the underappreciated wisdom of Pride & Prejudice's Charlotte Lucas, while Jake (unsuccessfully) attempts to convince Marlon that Agatha Christie is, in fact, not overrated. One thing they actually agree on?? That would be their passionate disdain for Wuthering Heights-and it's not pretty-so Emily Bronte lovers, consider yourself warned!
Included Titles:

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
Shogun by James Clavell
Tai-Pan by James Clavell
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Released:
Jan 27, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (35)

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.