Marlon and Jake Read Dead People
Penguin Random House
Topics: Books · Society & Culture
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...
Latest episodes
- The Literary Hall of Shame
- English Teachers, Look Away
- In Defense of Gratuitous Violence
- The Most Important Character Isn’t a Character
- This Got More Personal Than We Expected
- Why Does Great Literature Have Such Bad Sex?
- Writers We'll Never Read Again (Sorry, Faulkner)
- Is Jane Eyre Okay?
- Calling Bullshit on Dystopias
- Clearing the Cobwebs
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People is No. 87 in Arts on Apple Podcasts in the US today. The latest episode came out on September 8, 2026. A new episode comes out about once a week.
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| Chart | Place | Since yesterday |
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| US: Arts | 87 | ▼15 |
| UK: Arts | 104 | ▼9 |
| Canada: Arts | 149 | ▼49 |
| Australia: Arts | 195 | New |
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