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

Her daughter was very ill. matched

And it was a story about... It seemed to be too much about her. matched

For all the Didion fans out there, read Slouching Towards Bethlehem. matched

Okay, there's no virtue to that, in my opinion. matched

I will say it's a great jacket, a great book jacket, because I think what they ended up doing was it was the title and her name, but the four of the initials spelled out John, which I think is like a clever thing to do because it's about the death of her husband, John. matched

Great redone. matched

Anyway, that's a separate podcast about book design, about jacket design. matched

But I think that's where you get in a situation, solipsism, somebody like Henry James, who might be the most self-absorbed writer we've dissed on this podcast. matched

Like him, though, I do. matched

Respect him, though, I do. matched

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That's fair enough. matched

That's fair matched

Because he was like a public intellectual. matched

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Okay, so what you're saying basically is the nonfiction writers that you have come across who have tried to write fiction have not been uniformly successful. matched

Or at least in these two examples. matched

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Do you think in the case of a journalist, it's more difficult to become a successful or maybe less of a journalist and more of a commentator or opinion matched

You do. matched

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