Podcasts · Marlon and Jake Read Dead People

Short Novels and Novellas

· 48 min · Episode 10 · Explicit

Episode Short Novels and Novellas

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Marlon and Jake talk short books they love, syllabus staples to skip (Hemingway die-hards, consider yourselves warned), and their first-ever real-time joint read, Blood on the Forge by William Attaway. What does Marlon consider the closest thing to a perfect novel? Tune in to find out!

• Sula by Toni Morrison • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys • Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls • Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson • Turn of the Screw by Henry James • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison • The Aspern Papers by Henry James • The Ambassadors by Henry James • Passing by Nella Larsen • Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino • If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino • Animal Farm by George Orwell • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway • The Quiet American by Graham Greene • The Lover by Marguerite Duras • 1984 by George Orwell • Blood on the Forge by William Attaway

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