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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Jun 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Marlon and Jake reunite to discuss the books that got them through the pandemic, classics they wish they had written, and whether Lord of the Flies needs a sequel. Select titles mentioned in this episode:A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DefoeBeloved by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleKindred by Octavia E. ButlerHarriet the Spy by Louise FitzhughGiovanni's Room by James BaldwinSteppenwolf by Herman HesseWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterMaurice by E.M. ForsterJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingWise Blood by Flannery O’ConnorHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradLord of the Flies by William GoldingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGo Set a Watchman by Harper LeeOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezBlood on the Forge by William Attaway
Released:
Jun 23, 2021
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.