Clearing the Cobwebs

Welcome back for a new season! Marlon and Jake catch up on what they’ve been reading, writing, and working on, including Marlon’s new novel, and explore the books they return to when it’s time to create. They discuss the stories that inspire rather than intimidate, the surprising value of giving up on a book, and the writers they revisit to clear the cobwebs from their minds. Tune in to hear how reading shapes their creative process, from finding the right voice to discovering what makes great dialogue.

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• “A Trifle from Life” by Anton Chekhov
• Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
• “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
• The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
• War Music by Christopher Logue
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Oresteia by Aeschylus
• Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
• Maurice by E. M. Forster
• Ernesto by Umberto Saba
• Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
• New Hampshire by Robert Frost
• In Parenthesis by David Jones
• Civil War by Lucan