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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 3.

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Marlon and Jake Read Dead People · The Literary Hall of Shame · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

It feels to me like he was trying too hard. matched

But the thing I would argue about Licari's books is that they're essentially morality stories. matched

Who's good, who's bad. matched

And it gets increasingly gray as they kind of move on. matched

But some of the, I think some of the novels that I, I mean, I think A Perfect Spy is terrific about a double agent. matched

The reader knows that. matched

And you can sort of, it's almost as if you can see this destruction ahead. matched

It's almost like you're driving down the highway and you can, oh, there's going to be an accident ahead and I'm going to watch this occur. matched

That's the way a perfect spy is for me. matched

I think it's very well constructed and I think very focused on character and morality. matched

I know. matched

I'm sorry. matched

I'll get off my high horse now. matched

But I do think somebody like Le Carre or even somebody like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, who are like, oh, these icons of a particular kind of writing. matched

I don't know if I necessarily need to read The Continental Op again, for example, by Dashiell matched

But do you know when you read it? matched

I knew I matched

Or in my case, ever. matched

Right, right. matched

I do remember, and I don't know if this is a criticism, but MMK's The Far Pavilions, are they no longer with us? matched

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