35 Episodes

  1. The Beach Read

    Published: 5/2/2023

  2. The Campus Novel

    Published: 4/25/2023

  3. City Settings

    Published: 4/18/2023

  4. Characters Behaving Badly

    Published: 4/11/2023

  5. Poetry FOMO

    Published: 4/4/2023

  6. Books Assigned in School

    Published: 3/28/2023

  7. Judging a Book

    Published: 3/21/2023

  8. From TBR to Recently Read

    Published: 3/14/2023

  9. Season Three Announcement

    Published: 3/7/2023

  10. Appetizer 2: Powerful Female Characters

    Published: 2/25/2022

  11. Appetizer 1: Unreliable Narrators

    Published: 2/18/2022

  12. Appetizers for everyone!

    Published: 2/18/2022

  13. Dead Authors Through History

    Published: 9/1/2021

  14. Books to Gift

    Published: 8/25/2021

  15. Our Favorite Characters

    Published: 8/18/2021

  16. Literary Grudge Match

    Published: 8/11/2021

  17. Books We Wish We had Written

    Published: 8/4/2021

  18. Gateway Books

    Published: 7/28/2021

  19. Best Last Books

    Published: 7/21/2021

  20. Our Second Favorite Books by Dead Authors

    Published: 7/14/2021

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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.