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Trashy Novels To Die For
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Mar 2, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week Marlon and Jake dive into one of life’s great guilty pleasures: the trashy novel. Do such books provide intellectual stimulation or lessons on morality? Of course not. Nevertheless, Marlon and Jake extol the virtues of these irresistibly low-brow novels that they can’t get enough of, in the process asking: What makes a novel trashy and what makes it literary? If a book holds up a mirror to society, can it qualify as trash? What are the differences between trashy novels for women and trashy novels for men? From Peyton Place to Valley of the Dolls to the Falconhurst novels, Marlon and Jake get real about the wonderfully salacious plots, the ridiculously named characters, the gay subtexts, the surprising pathos, and all the sex. SO. MUCH. SEX. So literary snobs, be warned. For the rest of us, tune in to celebrate dead authors who have given us the gift of a shamelessly good read.
Select titles discussed in this episode:
The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
The Falconhurst Series by Lance Horner, Kyle Onstott, and Ashley
Carter
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Shogun by James Clavell
The Executioner Series by Don Pendleton
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Bad Seed by William March
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Select titles discussed in this episode:
The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
The Falconhurst Series by Lance Horner, Kyle Onstott, and Ashley
Carter
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Shogun by James Clavell
The Executioner Series by Don Pendleton
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Bad Seed by William March
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Released:
Mar 2, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (35)
Marlon and Jake Read Dead People Trailer: MARLON AND JAKE READ DEAD PEOPLE is a podcast hosted by the Man Booker Prize-winning and internationally bestselling author Marlon James and his editor, Jake Morrissey, Executive Editor at Riverhead Books. In each episode, Marlon and Jake talk about authors—specifically dead authors. Authors they like. Authors they hate. Great books, terrible books, and books they love that you’d never expect them to. As a writer and an editor, Marlon and Jake have read thousands of books between them, and they’re not shy in expressing their opinions about them. Sometimes they’ll agree, sometimes they won’t, but, in every episode, they’ll tell you what they think—uncensored and with no holds barred. (That’s why the authors have to be dead.) So listen along to hear about the spectacularly good, the hilariously bad, and the brutally honest. by Marlon and Jake Read Dead People