For bestselling novelist Marlon James and his longtime editor Jake Morrissey, fighting for books is all in a day’s work. But fighting over books? That’s just good, old-fashioned fun.
It’s also the beating heart of their podcast, Marlon and Jake Read Dead People, now entering its much-anticipated third season. Conventional wisdom encourages that we never speak ill of the dead, but on Marlon and Jake Read Dead People, speaking ill of the dead is the main event. In each episode, author and editor banter about the late literary greats who inspire, torment, and obsess them. As James and Morrissey often joke, dead authors can’t clap back on Twitter—which perhaps explains the rollicking, no-holds-barred tone of their conversations, where disagreements and debates abound.
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