Marlon James: Black Leopard, Red Wolf: The Dark Star Trilogy

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Marlon James discusses the endlessly beautiful and brutal world of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first novel in The Dark Star Trilogy.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without books?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No to turn.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we be without books?
0:23.8	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:30.9	My guest is Marlon James.
0:33.0	Most of you know him as the Booker Prize-winning author of a brief history of seven killings,
0:40.3	but I hadn't read that book.
0:42.3	So when his new book, Black Leopard Red Wolf, came out, it's the first book of a trilogy,
0:49.3	The Dark Star Trilogy, do I have that?
0:52.3	And it's published by Riverhead Books.
0:55.1	I haven't been as excited, really thrilled by a book in years because this is a fantasy trilogy.
1:06.5	It takes place in the prehistory of Africa.
1:10.5	But is it okay if I call it an art novel?
1:13.9	Sure.
1:15.2	Because I think it is.
1:17.7	Yeah.
1:18.2	Yeah, I think it's a work of art.
1:20.2	I think you took that Game of Thrones idea and brought it into stellar space.
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