Marlon and Jake Read Dead People

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Rating
4.8
from
961 reviews
This podcast has
35 episodes
Language
Explicit
Yes
Date created
2019/12/18
Average duration
37 min.
Release period
40 days

Description

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.

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The Beach Read
2023/05/02
In the final episode of the season, Marlon and Jake weigh in on their favorite vacation reads, including the ones they started but never finished. Tune in to find out which classic novels Jake took to the beach and which ones Marlon says should have been thrown in the ocean. Subscribe to our River-herd newsletter for sneak peeks of our upcoming books, free giveaways, and exclusive content. https://sites.prh.com/riverhead-reader-newsletter The Goodbye Look by Ross McDonald War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Chances by Jackie Collins The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque The Golden Bowl by Henry James The Ambassadors by Henry James Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Pronto by Elmore Leonard Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot by Robert Arthur, Jr. Persuasion by Jane Austen
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The Campus Novel
2023/04/25
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times—it was school. In this episode, Marlon and Jake discuss books where school is the setting or going to school is central to the plot. They debate which authors got school right and which got school wrong, what makes an inspiring teacher, and what the closed universe of a schoolyard or college campus can feel like. Tune in to hear Marlon and Jake reminisce over their own college experiences and what they were like as students. Subscribe to our River-herd newsletter for sneak peeks of our upcoming books, free giveaways, and exclusive content. https://sites.prh.com/riverhead-reader-newsletter Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh Scoop by Evelyn Waugh The Crime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark A Separate Peace by John Knowles Look back in Anger by John Osborne Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Absalom, Absalom! By William Faulkner Love Story by Erich Segal
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City Settings
2023/04/18
In this episode, Marlon and Jake talk about cities in books. Books set in memorable cities, books set in cities you're glad you've never been to, and books where the city itself is nearly a character. They talk about the specificity of London of the 19th century British novel, the New York novel, entirely fictional cities in Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and don’t miss Marlon’s personal experience with Bloomsday in Dublin! Subscribe to our River-herd newsletter for sneak peeks of our upcoming books, free giveaways, and exclusive content. https://sites.prh.com/riverhead-reader-newsletter
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Characters Behaving Badly
2023/04/11
In this episode, Marlon and Jake talk about the bad characters we’re not meant to like but do and the good characters we’re meant to like but annoy us. From Dracula to Daisy Buchanan to Oliver Twist and Bambi, the good-to-evil spectrum is vast and no character is safe from commentary. Tune in to find out which classic villain the duo unanimously hate, and which villain gives Marlon the chills and scares Jake to this day. Subscribe to our River-herd newsletter for sneak peeks of our upcoming books, free giveaways, and exclusive content. https://sites.prh.com/riverhead-reader-newsletter
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Poetry FOMO
2023/04/04
This episode, Marlon and Jake discuss a new subject for the podcast: poetry! From epic poems to sonnets to the Romantics poets to contemporary (dead) poets. They ponder over why people don’t read poetry as much as prose and recite, on the spot, lines of poetry that are forever engrained in their memories. Subscribe to our River-herd newsletter for sneak peeks of our upcoming books, free giveaways, and exclusive content. https://sites.prh.com/riverhead-reader-newsletter
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Books Assigned in School
2023/03/28
Books assigned in school evoke strong feelings. You either love em’ or you hate em.’ In this episode, Marlon and Jake discuss the books they wished they were assigned in school and the ones they suffered through. Accompanying the books taught in school, there are, of course, the teachers who taught them. A teacher can make or break a book read in school. As a literature teacher (as well as Booker prize winning author), Marlon acknowledges there are some novels assigned in school that you have to work to understand that are really good, but sometimes those novels are not good and if it weren’t for being assigned in school, we wouldn’t still be reading it. Subscribe to our River-herd newsletter for sneak peeks of our upcoming books, free giveaways, and exclusive content. https://sites.prh.com/riverhead-reader-newsletter
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Judging a Book
2023/03/21
In this episode, Marlon and Jake weigh in on a question as old as books themselves—can you judge a book by its cover? Spoiler alert: the answer is yes! They discuss good books with bad covers and bad books with good covers, cover art trends (*cough* the woman facing away), books that were recommended to them, and books they read because of peer pressure. Tune in to hear Marlon and Jake opine the myriad ways we judge books. Subscribe to our River-herd newsletter for sneak peeks of our upcoming books, free giveaways, and exclusive content. https://sites.prh.com/riverhead-reader-newsletter
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From TBR to Recently Read
2023/03/14
Marlon and Jake are back! And they’re catching up on the dead authors they’ve read since they last spoke—some of which they praise, others they don’t. From comparing Nella Larson’s Passing to the Netflix film, to discussing unsettling stories that linger with you, they cover a lot of literary ground. They also weigh in on longstanding debates like whether they read the book or watch the movie adaption first and the difference between horror and terror. Tune in for the witty book banter you know and love.
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Season Three Announcement
2023/03/07
In just one week, Marlon and Jake return with an epic new season discussing the non-living luminaries they love, hate, and will never agree on. Get ready for even more hot takes, hilarious debates, and incisive commentary on dead poets, judging books by their covers, exactly what kind of student Marlon was in college, and which classic novel Jake spoiled the ending for a colleague—among other literary gems.
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Appetizer 2: Powerful Female Characters
2022/02/25
Marlon & Jake are back to discuss the most indelible and powerful female characters—those written by dead female authors and those written by dead male authors. From Sula Peace to the Wife of Bath, Scout Finch to Janie Crawford—these two gentleman celebrate some of literature’s most ferocious, complicated, guileless, unrepentant and commanding women.
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Appetizer 1: Unreliable Narrators
2022/02/18
Marlon & Jake are back to discuss the narrators they love but can't trust. From the delusional to the uninformed, the sociopathic to the sympathetic, they explore the characters that charm as much as they trick, begging the question: is there such a thing as a reliable narrator? So tune in to hear if Jake has warmed to Great Expectations (spoiler alert: he hasn’t) and so much more!
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Appetizers for everyone!
2022/02/18
We didn't ghost you, dear listeners. Marlon had a novel to finish, which Jake had to edit. But the good news is it's officially out in the world, and so before Marlon—the very living author—takes off on his whirlwind book tour, he and Jake are back together for a brief (but delicious) reunion of discussing what they love most: DEAD AUTHORS. We'll be back for season three later this spring, but until then, stayed tuned for an amuse bouche, a canapé, an appetizer—take your pick!—to the glorious meal on the horizon.
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4.8 out of 5
961 reviews
por venezuela 2024/01/13
I love this podcast
Found this podcast and am hooked. It is a pleasure to listen to them chatting and the book recommendations are excellent. Have already added some to m...
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Cedricsmom 2023/08/20
Where you at?!
I MISS Y’ALL! Come back!!! ❤️
kathyinorlando 2023/08/12
Missing You
Hoping you will be back both rested and energized in the fall. Just wanted you to know you were missed.
Parsimonee 2023/06/09
Melodious and twangy harmony
Like a party that goes on too long for all the wrong and right reasons
Piffles1276 2023/04/11
Simply the best
This is hands down my favorite book podcast. So happy to have you back!!
20digits 2023/04/28
One half a great show
A book discussion show with the insightful and entertaining Mahlon is dragged down by his pedantic off kilter editor vho bores as he breathes .
CMJ682 2023/04/05
Welcome back!
So glad to hear you!
mspassell 2023/03/23
5577645 stars!!!
As experts in the publishing industry and total book lovers, Marlon and Jake have great takes about books we were supposed to love but don’t. By limit...
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PField35 2023/03/22
Hello again
I realize you both have commitments that keep you from recording these podcasts on a regular basis but know that I keep a candle burning in the window...
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D Flint 2023/03/17
Thank you for the new season!
So happy my favorite podcast is back. Please keep them coming
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