Literary speculation abounds as Marlon and Jake reveal which books they wish they had written and which they think would have been better if they’d been written by someone completely different. Listen in as they explore the questions you never knew you needed answers to. Would The Confessions of Nat Turner have been better if Zora Neale Hurston had written it? Who could have written a funnier Ulysses? Were members of the Bloomsbury Group actually total bores? And perhaps most important: Does Marlon’s mom still have his Tom Jones fan-fiction and if so, how much is Jake willing to pay for it? Tune in for all this and more, including a lively discussion about plays that are as enjoyable to read as they are to see on stage. (And spoiler: Jake is not a fan of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.)Select title discussed:Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Dubliners by James JoyceTai-Pan by James ClavellWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysBefore Night Falls by Reinaldo ArenasThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneA Bend in the River by V.S. NaipaulAirships by Barry Hannah Joseph Andrews by Henry fieldingPamela by Samuel RichardsonThe Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace ThackerayShōgun by James Clavell Trent's Last Case by E. C. BentleyThe Moonstone by Wilkie Collins The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Middlemarch by George EliotA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Obscene Bird of Night by José DonosoThe Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron Barracoon by Zora Neale HurstonTerrorist by John UpdikeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Ulysses by James Joyce Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Orlando by Virginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-WestThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonHouse of Mirth by Edith WhartonHighland Fling by Nancy MitfordHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradDon Quixote by Miguel de CervantesThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare The Two Gentleman of Verona by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareAs You Like It by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareAn Ideal Husband by Oscar WildeHis Girl Friday by Charles Lederer (screenplay), adapted from The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (play)Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer Amadeus by Peter Shaffer Endgame by Samuel Beckett