Marlon and Jake Read Dead People
Hosted by Jake and Marlon · Penguin Random House
4.8from 1,216 ratings
- 44
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 1,216
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Marlon and Jake Read Dead People
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People is a podcast hosted by the 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.
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Category
- arts · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 18 Dec 2019
- Latest episode
- 8 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 44 episodes have a transcript.
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Literary Hall of Shame
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
English Teachers, Look Away
25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
In Defense of Gratuitous Violence
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The Literary Hall of Shame
Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Or at least in these two examples. Yeah. Do you think in the case of a journalist, it's more difficult to become a successful or maybe less of a journalist and more of a commentator or opinion writer? You know what? Considering how much I usually insist on my fiction students taking journalism courses... […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,003 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 213 ratings
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