Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Marlon James offers a peek inside the world of Moon Witch, Spider King
Marlon James offers a peek inside the world of Moon Witch, Spider King
The author's red-hot Dark Star Trilogy continues this spring.
By Seija Rankin
December 15, 2021 at 10:00 AM EST
When Marlon James set out to write the sequel book Moon Witch, Spider King (out Feb. 15), he quickly found he needed a visual aid. "You don't get very far into a fantasy novel before you realize you don't know what the hell you're writing about — so you better get to maps," he tells EW of creating the South Kingdom. "Once I drew an early version of this map, it started to influence the story."
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Marlon James / Black Leopard, Red Wolf / An Excerpt
An Excerpt From
BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF
by Marlon James
BIOGRAPHY
Chapter 4
We took one bow, many arrows, two daggers, two hatchets, a gourd tied to my hip with a piece of the cloth inside, and set out before first light.
‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is the fantasy epic everyone will be talking about
| Marlon James |
‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’
is the fantasy epic everyone
will be talking about
Review by Ron Charles
January 28, 2019
“We tell stories to live,” says Tracker, the indefatigable narrator, who tells a lot of stories but doesn’t let many people live. When the novel opens, Tracker is rotting in a dungeon where he recently stabbed, crushed and blinded his five cellmates. They had it coming — or most of them did — and in any case, it’s a perfect introduction to a lonely hero who will leave behind so many dead bodies over the next 600 pages that this book should be interred instead of shelved.
How The Affair inspired Marlon James' latest novel Black Leopard Red Wolf
How The Affair inspired Marlon James' latest novel Black Leopard Red Wolf
Seija Rankin
February 05, 2019 at 10:00 AM EST
If you’re at all plugged in to the book world then you’ve been hearing about Marlon James’ newest novel, Black Leopard Red Wolf (out Tuesday), for months now. The author embodies the top of today’s literary hierarchy: He’s won the Man Booker prize (for 2015’s A Brief History of Seven Killings), and is also a frequent name on the New York Times bestseller list. But the fantasy tome — which is set to be the first of the aptly-named Dark Star Trilogy — is a notable departure from his previous work.
A Brief History of Seven Killings / An ambitious novel
A Brief History of Seven Killings
BIOGRAPHY
This ambitious novel requires an ambitious reader. Starting with the assassination attempt on Bob Marley in 1976, James chronicles decades of upheaval in Jamaica’s turbulent history through the eyes of myriad narrators: a Rolling Stone reporter, the ghost of a politician, and an assortment of gangsters, drug lords, and CIA agents. The sheer number of characters (there’s a handy list at the beginning), the Caribbean slang, and the gonzo view of violence and corruption are dizzying but nothing short of awe-inspiring.
Marlon James / 'Writers of colour pander to the white woman'
| Sole rebel? Jamaican novelist Marlon James, whose fictional retelling of the 1976 attempted murder of Bob Marley, A Brief History of Seven Killings, won this year’s Man Booker prize for fiction. Photograph: Felix Clay |
Marlon James: 'Writers of colour pander to the white woman'
The 2015 Man Booker winner has blasted the publishing industry for pressuring authors to write ‘astringent prose set in suburbia’ for an ‘archetype of the white woman’
Sian Cain
Monday 30 November 2015
The 2015 Man Booker prize winner Marlon James has slammed the publishing world, saying authors of colour too often “pander to white women” to sell books, and that he could have been published more often if he had written “middle-style prose and private ennui”.
The 2015 Man Booker prize winner Marlon James has slammed the publishing world, saying authors of colour too often “pander to white women” to sell books, and that he could have been published more often if he had written “middle-style prose and private ennui”.
Jeanette Winterson meets Marlon James / ‘You can’t keep upgrading people like you do with your phone’
| Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James |
Jeanette Winterson meets Marlon James: ‘You can’t keep upgrading people like you do with your phone’
Jeanette Winterson is the award-winning author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Marlon James won the 2015 Booker prize with his third novel, A Brief History Of Seven Killings
BIOGRAPHY OF MARLON JAMES
Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James28 November 2015
When Marlon James appears at the designated Miami hotel bar, Jeanette Winterson leaps up and runs to him. “I’m going to hug you,” she says. It’s the first time they’ve met, but the conversation flows at a steady speed for an hour and a half.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James review / Bloody conflicts in 70s Jamaica
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James review – bloody conflicts in 70s Jamaica
BIOGRAPHY
James’s impressive third novel sets the attempted assassination of Bob Marley against the cacophony and violence of Jamaica as the CIA moved in
Kei Miller
Wednesday 10 December 2014
T
he Jamaican novelist Marlon James has written three books to date – a kind of triple-jump feat, though that metaphor isn’t quite appropriate when one considers the extraordinary length of the leap he has taken between each book. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, established him as an interesting local writer with an imagination markedly different from that of other Jamaican and Caribbean writers; he relished the darkness and gore rather than the sunshine and bouncy music. But John Crow’s Devil, a small novel of hardly 200 pages, did not prepare anyone for what was to come next: The Book of Night Women.
Marlon James / ‘You have to risk going too far’
| ‘It’s sci fi, it’s fantasy but... I don’t want to write a but’ – Marlon James in Brooklyn, NYC. Photograph: Mike McGregor for the Observer |
Marlon James: ‘You have to risk going too far’
Alex Preston
Sundady 17 February 2019
It’s two days before the US release of Marlon James’s much-hyped fourth novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the prizewinning Jamaican author has an air of baffled, exhausted ebullience about him. He’s no stranger to critical success: he won the 2015 Man Booker prize for his violent, multi-voiced epic, A Brief History of Seven Killings. But it feels like this new book will propel James into a new galaxy of literary stardom.
Marlon James’ Superpower
| Marlon James |
Marlon James’ Superpower
The Booker prizewinner brings his remarkable voice to the first novel in a dark fantasy trilogy.
BIOGRAPHY
BY LAURA MILLERFEB 12, 2019
7:30 AM
Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings—a panoramic, multivocal portrait of his hometown, Kingston, Jamaica, around the time of an assassination attempt on Bob Marley—was a literary reputation-maker, winner of the 2015 Booker Prize, and one of the great city novels of the past five decades. Black Leopard, Red Wolf—James’ first major work since then—will strike many as a radical departure: It is the first in an epic fantasy trilogy set on a fictional continent loosely based on Iron Age Africa. The novel is a delirious smoothie of cultural influences and tributes, from Kurosawa films to superhero comics to the seminal work of the 1930s Nigerian writer D.O. Fagunwa, whose Forest of a Thousand Daemons was the first novel published in the Yoruba language. (I’m pretty sure I even caught a whiff of Robert Browning at one point.)
Friday, November 12, 2021
Jason Reynolds / “Reading rap lyrics made me realise that poetry could be for me”
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Jason Reynolds: “Reading rap lyrics made me realise that poetry could be for me”
The American YA author on discovering Stephen King, growing into Toni Morrison – and the perfect novel
The American YA author on discovering Stephen King, growing into Toni Morrison – and the perfect novel
BIOGRAPHY
12 NOVEMBER 2021
Stolen from Chekov’s mistress who got it from James Marcus. Oscar Wilde said that talent borrows but genius steals. I don’t know about feeling like a genius but I do know a thing or two about feeling like a thief. So here are my answers:
1. One book that changed your life?
I think the best books change your life in ways that maybe you cannot recognise, but others recognise in you and think that it's just growth. With that as a yardstick, X-men becomes as important as The Color Purple. But if I had to pick only one book it would be James Joyce’s Dubliners. The irony is that I’m such a prude that I didn’t realize what was happening in “The Encounter” until I was 31 years old! The very first thing I ever wrote was a story-by-story response to Dubliners. The Sisters became Disintegration (yep also based on The Cure), A Painful Case became Wallpaper Faces and Two Gallants became Two Gentlemen United for Northside. All awful, trust me. But after that I realized that I was never going to whup this writing thingy. Mind you it would be another seven years before I wrote something else.
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