Marlon James

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3,415 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Sep

Marlon James’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Marlon and Jake Read Dead People · English Teachers, Look Away · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

I think it's the craziest thing I've ever read. voice-verified

But it has no place in school. voice-verified

And with that other one is the my first would be Edith Hamilton's mythology. voice-verified

You don't wanna read Greek or Roman mythology or that's not no, I love Greek and Roman mythology. voice-verified

The problem with with myth mythology is that that's all that's there. voice-verified

What do you mean? voice-verified

Mean it's only just Greek and Roman. voice-verified

True. voice-verified

rather yeah. voice-verified

So I don't want to think expanded. voice-verified

I want some African myths, I want some Asian myths, I want not to be you know Japanese and Indian myths. voice-verified

I think a lot of these stories are already part of our sort of global lexicon. voice-verified

Everybody has some inkling of Arabian Knights and so on. voice-verified

I just think there is something about m the way I know the way I learned mythology, I thought it was a European thing. voice-verified

One of the reasons why voice-verified

ended up writing Black Leopard, Red Wolf, and Moonweed Spider King is because I had no mythology. voice-verified

Add folklore. voice-verified

But I had no mythology. voice-verified

And a mythology in some ways is a kind of voice-verified

Let's call it instinctual history of a people. voice-verified

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