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Welcome to Dedicated. i'm your host duck brunt today we're talking with marlin james he's the multi-award winning author of five novels including the novel

a brief history of seven killings which won the man booker prize in 2015 his writing is so

groundbreaking and powerful that in 2019, Time magazine named him to the

100 most influential people in the world. He's currently finishing the third book of his Darkstar

trilogy, which draws on thousands of years of African history and mythology. And the trilogy has

drawn comparisons to Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings, but all comparisons aside, it really is a new and

terrific force unto itself. Marlon, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Great to have

you here. Thanks for coming in. I'm looking forward to the dark and stormy. I love this drink. I actually

have some funny stories with it.

It's more of a summer drink for me, usually, and it's so good.

I kind of lose my internal governor.

They go down too easy.

The thing I found about this drink is that it's so simple, most bartenders mess it up.

Oh, boy.

Now that was just as I started pouring.

That says you started pouring.

Yeah, it's, it's, it's, I'll tell you my approach. I'm trying to think if I ever had a good one in New York yet. Oh, well, here this. Oh, boy, now that. I'm really setting me up. I'm like, all, well, first of all, no pressure. What about my ginger beer selection? I'm like, what is that?

Barrett's?

Yeah.

Where's that from Bermuda?

Muda ginger beer?

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