Poured Over: Marlon James on The Disappearers

Christine Ruhe

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.

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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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