City Settings

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People

In this episode, Marlon and Jake talk about cities in books. Books set in memorable cities, books set in cities you're glad you've never been to and books where the city itself is nearly a character. They talk about the specificity of London of the 19th century British novel, the New York novel, entirely fictional cities in Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and don’t miss Marlon’s personal experience with Bloomsday in Dublin!

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• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Portrait of the Artist by James Joyce
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
• Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
• Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
• In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Young Unicorns by Madeleine L’Engle