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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I don't remember reading any interviews around the time it came out.
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I mean, to me, the campus novel is already a suspect genre.
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Yeah.
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Although I don't think that novel has aged very well.
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think the time, I think the perspective, I think we want more.
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It's like pre-NYPD Blue, it's pre-The Wire, it's pre-television in some ways replacing the urban novel.
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It's torn deaf to stuff like AIDS.
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It's, you know, well, I mean, Wolf nonfiction is very perceptive.
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I don't think he would have known what to do with hip hop.
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hip-hop.
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But, you know, I mean, to come back to Charlotte Simmons, but also it's such a long book, and it's basically boys are scum, college is hard, but, you know, life goes on.
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Right, right.
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You can put that on a Hallmark card.
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Yeah, because I do think he's a brilliant writer.
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Well, I mean, Bonfire at the Vantage is really, in a way, it was veiled journalism.
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It was original issues of articles in Rolling Stone.
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but I also think that it also is a time when a lot of people thought New York was the world around us.
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Speculative, magically real.
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Yeah, I mean, I haven't reached the sort of rereading stage yet.
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You're young yet.
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