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



 

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