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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And uh and and that says and you know, funny funny enough, um Steinbeck is special for me because I was Steinbeck is when you're non American, Steinbeck is one of the writers you read a lot.
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Mm-hmm.
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Like I didn't read Hemingway until I came to America.
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But I'd written by by time I was say thirty I've read nine Steinbeck novels.
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Most of them in school.
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Yes.
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You don't think rich people should get drinks to sit down and read about rich people getting drinks to sit down?
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Yeah.
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My pro the pro my m the I have a pro in a con haming way thought.
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My pro Hammingway thought is I like that he can write about worlds worlds without sounding like a tourist.
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And I think
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Okay, sorry.
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No, but I but but there are ways in which he writes, especially when he writes about Spain.
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Yes.
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Where I don't feel like he's ugly American.
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Um, looking at Spain from his own perspective and and you know, like I've read I've reach I've read travel narratives where the person ha clearly made up their mind about the place before they even got there.
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Mm-hmm.
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Right.
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And they look for stuff to reinforce it.
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And I think he is free of that.
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