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In our last episode of the season, Marlon and Jake take on the worst books by the best authors—or at least, authors they usually love. They discuss why a journalist’s instincts can be both a gift and a curse when writing fiction, the importance of a great editor, writers who seem more interested in ideas than people, and novels that try so hard to be current they end up aging badly. Tune in for a conversation about literary misfires and wasted genius.
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The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches
In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
My Son’s Story by Nadine Gordimer
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Hotel by Arthur Hailey
Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins
The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Whirlwind by James Clavell
Gai-Jin by James Clavell
The Breast by Philip Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett
The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
India: A Wounded Civilization by V. S. Naipaul
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
Terrorist by John Updike