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

Some people can't. matched

Like, for example, I remember I went through a period several years ago where I reread a lot of Dickens. matched

And the first Dickens I ever read when I was in college was the Pickwick Papers. matched

which I thought was good, and I liked a lot more better. matched

I reread it, and I'm like, oh, I hate this. matched

And I hate it because it's like coitus interruptus. matched

It's like the picker-esque novel. matched

Nothing actually gets matched

I understand why he wrote it. matched

He was writing for magazines, and there were way too many strands that didn't get followed up. matched

It wasn't a novel so much as it was 600 pages of something that my English professor wanted us to read. matched

I'm happy to read Barnaby Rudge, matched

before I would read the Pickwick papers again. matched

Well, he and I are probably the only two who actually thought it wasn't terrible. matched

But do you think if you're a journalist, in other words, if you think yourself a novelist first, does that help you in terms of trying to write fiction? matched

Because I'm trying to think off the top of my head who actually writes, who comes from that kind of world? matched

I don't know, Tom Wolfe? matched

Tom Wolfe is matched

He is? matched

Yeah. matched

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