Two days after dodging most of the bullets, an injured Marley headlined a peace concert in Kingston, the Jamaican capital, standing between the leaders of the two political parties like, he would later say, Jesus between the two thieves. 3, 1976, assassination attempt on Marley, the reggae superstar. The novel, which James has been thinking about for decades and which he completed over the past four years, radiates from the Dec.
Make no mistake: “Seven Killings” is no easy airport read. The book is “an indispensable and essential history of Jamaica’s troubled years,” said Publishers Weekly. Novelist Russell Banks has been similarly effusive, saying that “Seven Killings” is “scary and lyrically beautiful - you’ll want to read whole pages aloud to strangers.” The press is sending James on a multiweek national tour to support a work that blunt New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani called “epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex.” The media storm is all about “Seven Killings,” a nearly 700-page novel published by Riverhead, a Penguin imprint. “The Times, I’ve worked with them - they always have to be first.” She wonders why anyone would care about her little blog in Jamaica. “Can you please take it down?” James asks Paul, no sign of panic or upset in his voice. The blog post, in which James discusses his epic novel about the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Kingston, has upset editors at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, each of which has a story on James coming out soon.
James is on his phone with prominent Jamaican blogger Annie Paul, who has just published her interview with him online. But right now, as he sits in a car rolling down Lake Street in Minneapolis, he seeks to put out a fire in Jamaica to please some powerful media interests in New York. Paul, across the street from Macalester College, where he teaches. Tonight, James has his first publication reading at Common Good Books in St. His third novel, “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” hit bookstores today with more buzz than a swarm of bees. 1, the biggest day in Marlon James’ career - if not his life.
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