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Poured Over · September 8 · 1 hr 2 min

Marlon James on THE DISAPPEARERS

The Booker Prize–winning author Marlon James returns with The Disappearers, a deeply human story exploring queer life in Jamaica during the 1980s and 1990s. Marlon joined us live from Stony Brook University to talk about the consequences of violence, the loss of monoculture, Polari, post-colonial literature, and the X-Men with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: The Disappearers by Marlon James Book of Night Women by Marlon James Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Dracula by Bram Stoker The Spirit of Science Fiction by Robert Bolaño Beloved by Toni Morrison A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner Bleak House by Charles Dickens Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon A New World Order by Caryl Phillips The Correspondent by Virginia Evans The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Godfather by Mario Puzo In the Hand of Dante by Nick Toches Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White Money by Martin Amis Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedon Tar Baby by Toni Morrison Moderation by Elaine Castillo James by Percival Everett Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Lord of the Flies by William Golding X Men Comics Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Waves by Virginia Woolf Ulysses by James Joyce The Odyssey by Homer

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The Booker Prize–winning author Marlon James returns with The Disappearers, a deeply human story exploring queer life in Jamaica during the 1980s and 1990s. Marlon joined us live from Stony Brook University to talk about the consequences of violence, the loss of monoculture, Polari, post-colonial literature, and the X-Men with host Miwa Messer.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.

Featured Books:

The Disappearers by Marlon James

Book of Night Women by Marlon James

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Spirit of Science Fiction by Robert Bolaño

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

A New World Order by Caryl Phillips

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

In the Hand of Dante by Nick Toches

Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White

Money by Martin Amis

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedon

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Moderation by Elaine Castillo

James by Percival Everett

Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

X Men Comics

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Odyssey by Homer

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