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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And we can talk about, hey, in England in Jamaica, not j sorry, in America it was the G Great Gatsby.

Right.

Or something like that.

What I'm not gonna say there's no Jazzi's Ireland novel.

I'm sure Flanner Bryan wrote that.

But yeah, I find myself that was one of the first sort of for me modern cities that I read about that I felt I could touch and taste and smell.

Interesting.

I I um wouldn't have used these words then, but Battle of the Side Cafe is another one of those novels of chosen family.

I I guess you know, I I've done a I've done a lot of research in it.

The novels were they're not necessarily explicitly gay or queer, but a lot of queer gay other found a certain kind of solace in these kind of books.

Like Auntie Meme, certainly battleside cafe.

The wherever the ones where the misfits fit.

So you're saying you're drawn to these little utopias?

Yeah.

In a

Yeah.

It it does g it it does give you a sense of hope and a sense uh almost a belief in human possibility.

No, you're not wrong.

He didn't judge.

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