Marlon James

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

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Marlon and Jake Read Dead People · The Most Important Character Isn’t a Character · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

Do you have to research this world?

Do you have to know everything about the world?

What about Kafka's America?

Which is a thoroughly made up place.

Right.

Or or um yeah, how do we ha part of the whole thing about setting is

how the characters behave in setting and how they respond to what where they are and does setting become

In a weird kind of character.

Well

Yeah.

And with that for me uh the fictional worlds I find myself drawn to the a lot and go back to quite a bit is the sea.

Is the ocean and then

two of the books uh here deal with the old deal with the sea in a way.

But the first one was there was the long ships.

One because it's a sea, but also because it's Vikings.

I read a lot of sagas out of, you know.

I'm there's nothing wrong with reading sagas, and I'm not here to

I'm drawn to it for also f because it's it's improbable, it's so fatalistic.

In a story like the Longships and in the sagas, they these people may very well be doomed.

It's not the world of pirates, it's not the world of the conquistadors, it's the world of some savage brutalizers who are here to pillage and plunder.

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