Marlon & Jake Read Dead People, the podcast
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.
Listen to episode one now!
The Praise
“Rollicking, no-holds-barred... conversations where disagreements and debates abound.” —Esquire
“[A] deeply literary, deeply fun podcast.” —The Los Angeles Times
“Highly entertaining.” —The Star Tribune
“The key to a co-hosted podcast is the natural chemistry between the presenters... James and Morrissey have that in buckets.” —The Guardian
“James and Morrissey... breathe life into the literature of the past.” —The New York Times
