Jake Morrissey
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3,330 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Jake Morrissey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Riverhead Books presents Marlon and Jake Read Dead People, a podcast with Marlon James and Jake Morrissey.
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You don't finish the book?
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If I don't like it, because there aren't enough days left in my life.
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Okay, that makes sense.
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In this episode, we wanted to sort of call out the worst books by the best authors or authors we like.
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We want to tell the truth about maybe people whose books we like to read or have liked to read in the past that we don't think every book they've written is necessarily worth reading or that maybe we like that might be controversial.
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They don't have to be part of the literary canon.
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I'm looking at you, Jackie Collins.
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Leave her alone.
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Leave her alone, he
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But I do want to hear what Mr. James has to say about what he's written or who he's read and whose books he doesn't like.
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Meaning?
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Okay.
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This is sounding familiar, but I don't think I've read the novel.
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It's
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Well, I will say in the case of somebody like Joan Didion, I did not like The Year of Magical Thinking.
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I know there are people who do.
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I thought this was a bad book by a decent writer.
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I don't want to hear about your self... This is making me sound cruel.
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Her husband died.
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