Two Literary Stars, Two Kitchens: Marlon James & Nicholas Boggs
Season 3, Ep. 7
Booker Prize winner Marlon James and biographer Nicholas Boggs join Michele for their first-ever joint podcast interview. The two compare childhood kitchens: a Kingston coal stove and a D.C. family dinner table. Marlon explains why he took over the family cooking at age nine, while Nicholas explains why refusing to do the dishes was his safest act of rebellion; and both talk about writing as detective work, from Marlon’s novel The Disappearers to Nicholas’s Baldwin: A Love Story. Along the way: a very telling sprig of parsley and a life-size horse lamp. Plus, we learn how to make Marlon’s Jamaican sweet potato pudding.
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