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The Beach Read
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - May 02, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutesIn the final episode of the season, Marlon and Jake weigh in on their favorite vacation reads, including the ones they started but never finished. Tune in to find out which classic novels Jake took to the beach and which ones Marlon says should have been thrown in the ocean. Subscribe to our R...
The Campus Novel
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - April 25, 2023 20:14 - 38 minutesIt was the best of times; it was the worst of times—it was school. In this episode, Marlon and Jake discuss books where school is the setting or going to school is central to the plot. They debate which authors got school right and which got school wrong, what makes an inspiring teacher, and wha...
City Settings
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - April 18, 2023 12:56 - 45 minutesIn this episode, Marlon and Jake talk about cities in books. Books set in memorable cities, books set in cities you're glad you've never been to and books where the city itself is nearly a character. They talk about the specificity of London of the 19th century British novel, the New York novel,...
Characters Behaving Badly
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - April 11, 2023 12:08 - 54 minutesIn this episode, Marlon and Jake talk about the bad characters we’re not meant to like but do and the good characters we’re meant to like but annoy us. From Dracula to Daisy Buchanan to Oliver Twist and Bambi, the good-to-evil spectrum is vast and no character is safe from commentary. Tune in to...
Poetry FOMO
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - April 04, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutesThis episode, Marlon and Jake discuss a new subject for the podcast: poetry! From epic poems to sonnets to the Romantics poets to contemporary (dead) poets. They ponder over why people don’t read poetry as much as prose and recite, on the spot, lines of poetry that are forever engrained in their...
Books Assigned in School
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - March 28, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutesBooks assigned in school evoke strong feelings. You either love em’ or you hate em.’ In this episode, Marlon and Jake discuss the books they wished they were assigned in school and the ones they suffered through. Accompanying the books taught in school, there are, of course, the teachers who tau...
Judging a Book
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - March 21, 2023 13:33 - 44 minutesIn this episode, Marlon and Jake weigh in on a question as old as books themselves—can you judge a book by its cover? Spoiler alert: the answer is yes! They discuss good books with bad covers and bad books with good covers, cover art trends (*cough* the woman facing away), books that were recomm...
From TBR to Recently Read
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - March 14, 2023 13:38 - 43 minutesMarlon and Jake are back! And they’re catching up on the dead authors they’ve read since they last spoke—some of which they praise, others they don’t. From comparing Nella Larson’s Passing to the Netflix film, to discussing unsettling stories that linger with you, they cover a lot of literary gr...
Season Three Announcement
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - March 07, 2023 14:37 - 42 secondsIn just one week, Marlon and Jake return with an epic new season discussing the non-living luminaries they love, hate, and will never agree on. Get ready for even more hot takes, hilarious debates, and incisive commentary on dead poets, judging books by their covers, exactly what kind of student ...
Appetizer 2: Powerful Female Characters
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - February 25, 2022 15:09 - 41 minutesMarlon & Jake are back to discuss the most indelible and powerful female characters—those written by dead female authors and those written by dead male authors. From Sula Peace to the Wife of Bath, Scout Finch to Janie Crawford—these two gentleman celebrate some of literature’s most ferocious, c...
Appetizer 1: Unreliable Narrators
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - February 18, 2022 15:10 - 45 minutesMarlon & Jake are back to discuss the narrators they love but can't trust. From the delusional to the uninformed, the sociopathic to the sympathetic, they explore the characters that charm as much as they trick, begging the question: is there such a thing as a reliable narrator? So tune in to he...
Appetizers for everyone!
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - February 18, 2022 15:10 - 3 minutesWe didn't ghost you, dear listeners. Marlon had a novel to finish, which Jake had to edit. But the good news is it's officially out in the world, and so before Marlon—the very living author—takes off on his whirlwind book tour, he and Jake are back together for a brief (but delicious) reunion of...
Dead Authors Through History
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - September 01, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutesPrepare for what might be Marlon & Jake’s most controversial hot takes yet, as they travel back through the last four hundred years to decide which dead authors from each century stand the test of time and which can be left to gather dust on the shelf. Where do they fall on Paradise Lost? Who ...
Books to Gift
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - August 25, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutesThis week Marlon & Jake discuss the books by dead authors they give as gifts and the very important decision-making that goes into that selection. Whether it’s for a younger, skeptical or pretentious reader, they share the unintentionally comedic and surprisingly engaging books they choose to be...
Our Favorite Characters
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - August 18, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutesThis week Marlon & Jake discuss memorable characters from books by dead authors—who they love, who they despise and everything in between. What exactly makes a character great? Who would they invite to their literary dinner party and why? From Elmore Leonard’s Raylan to Louisa May Alcott’s Jo ...
Books We Wish We had Written
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - August 04, 2021 13:26 - 56 minutesLiterary speculation abounds as Marlon and Jake reveal which books they wish they had written and which they think would have been better if they’d been written by someone completely different. Listen in as they explore the questions you never knew you needed answers to. Would The Confessions of...
Gateway Books
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - July 28, 2021 14:29 - 49 minutesMarlon and Jake share their "gateway" books by dead authors, the first books they read that that turned them on—or off—the rest of an author's work. From John Steinbeck to Dorothy Parker, Umberto Eco to Norman Mailer, Ayn Rand to Carson McCullers, Marlon and Jake don't hold back in discussing th...
Best Last Books
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - July 21, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutesIn this episode Marlon and Jake ponder the tricky question of the last books by authors who’ve … um … left this mortal coil. Which last books are actually worth reading? (Not many, it turns out.) From Roberto Bolaño to Penelope Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath to Eudora Welty, Marlon and Jake discuss ho...
Our Second Favorite Books by Dead Authors
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - July 14, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutesWe've heard them rave about their favorites and rant about their least favorites, but Marlon and Jake reveal in this episode their second favorite books by dead authors: the books they love that are the runners-up to the #1 spots in their hearts. From Amos Tutuola to Gabriel García Márquez to Jo...
Good Books By Terrible People
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - July 07, 2021 13:35 - 41 minutesMarlon & Jake weigh in on the age-old “artist versus art” debate, as they examine good books by problematic dead authors, as well as the bad and sometimes problematic books by great dead authors. From Flannery O’Conner to Roald Dahl, Vladimir Nabokov to the surprisingly challenging Charles Dic...
Short Novels and Novellas
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - June 30, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutesMarlon and Jake talk short books they love, syllabus staples to skip (Hemingway die-hards, consider yourselves warned), and their first-ever real-time joint read, Blood on the Forge by William Attaway. What does Marlon consider the closest thing to a perfect novel? Tune in to find out! Sula b...
We’re Baaaaack!
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - June 23, 2021 12:41 - 41 minutesMarlon and Jake reunite to discuss the books that got them through the pandemic, classics they wish they had written, and whether Lord of the Flies needs a sequel. Select titles mentioned in this episode: A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Beloved by Toni Morrison Song of Solomon ...
Season Two Trailer
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - June 14, 2021 12:00 - 49 secondsMarlon and Jake are back with a sizzling new season of the dead authors they love, hate, and will never agree on. Get ready for even more heated (and hilarious) debates, unexpected insights, and—of course—brutal honesty. Dead authors never felt so cool.
Season Two Teaser
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - May 27, 2021 14:15 - 28 secondsMarlon and Jake are back this summer for a second season
The Adaptables Podcast — Little Fires Everywhere, Episode 1 with R. Eric Thomas
Read it Forward - March 18, 2020 07:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsThe Adaptables is a podcast from Read it Forward and Penguin Random House that dives into your favorite book-to-screen adaptations. This season, we’re watching the Hulu adaptation of Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE. Join hosts Abbe Wright and Emma Shafer as we interview authors, insiders an...
Goodbye for Now, but We'll Be Back!
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - March 17, 2020 04:00 - 9 minutesAs Marlon and Jake wrap up Season 1 of Reading Dead People, they take a moment to reflect on what they've learned and what dead books and authors they want to discuss when they return for season two. So Marlon and Jake will be on a hiatus--they have some reading to do!--but fear not, they will b...
Questions, Questions
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - March 09, 2020 05:00 - 46 minutesThis week Marlon and Jake answer some of the questions that listeners have asked. What dead author or book did they initially hate but have come around to love? What is the best book by the worst dead author? And who is the most annoying character by a dead author? (Spoiler alert: Heathcliff. Ob...
Trashy Novels To Die For
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - March 02, 2020 05:00 - 37 minutesThis week Marlon and Jake dive into one of life’s great guilty pleasures: the trashy novel. Do such books provide intellectual stimulation or lessons on morality? Of course not. Nevertheless, Marlon and Jake extol the virtues of these irresistibly low-brow novels that they can’t get enough of, i...
Movies Made From Books by Dead People
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - February 24, 2020 05:00 - 41 minutesMarlon and Jake put on their Hollywood sunglasses as they discuss the films adapted from books by dead people. What makes a good movie adaptation? What translates from the page to the screen and what most definitely does not? Jake admits that The Exorcist is the most shocking novel and movie he’...
Memoir and Autobiography
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People - February 17, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutesThis week Marlon and Jake delve into the very real lives of very dead writers. From Gore Vidal to Frank McCourt, Ulysses S. Grant to Gabriel García Márquez, they discuss how memory compares to history and whether the trustworthiness of a memoir really matters if the book is a compelling read. Th...
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