Jake Morrissey
speaker
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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I would have said he's a better reporter or observer, maybe.
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Some of the stuff he wrote, which was before my time of like, oh, the new journalism.
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And it was like, oh, I haven't read this.
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I haven't read this before.
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And I haven't read this presentation before.
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And that felt, at least to me, when I kind of discovered in college, kind of new and fresh and unexpected.
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But as a novelist, I'm not even sure that he understands that being a novelist is actually different than being a journalist or a reporter or an observer.
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Yes, it was presented as, oh, this is a bold new look at the world around us.
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At least that was what I remember.
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Yeah,
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Well, it was, yes.
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And I think, you know, it was almost like New York was being rediscovered or re-judged somehow.
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Well, I mean, it's interesting when you were talking about Tom Wolfe, I remember as a, also in college, having to read Virginia Woolf and, you know, genuinely understand, or no, I shouldn't say genuinely, generally like appreciating what it is she tried to do.
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And then I came across Orlando.
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And I thought, you know, I'm not here for that.
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Well, I guess it falls a little bit of the category of, you know, when Dylan goes electric.
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It's like, do you need, does Virginia need to go, what, speculative fiction?
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Yeah, but, you know, it's...
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It's sort of a thinly veiled novel about Vita Sackville-West.
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And it doesn't strike me as the best use of my time and her genius.
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