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This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast: \u201cBlack Leopard, Red Wolf\u201d author Marlon James, recently named one of Time\u2019s 100 most influential people. From Time magazine: James lives part-time in St. Paul and teaches at Macalester College, where he is writer-in-residence. He was born in Jamaica and is the author of \u201cThe Book of Night Women,\u201d winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; \u201cA Brief History of Seven Killings,\u201d winner of the Man Booker Prize, and \u201cBlack Leopard, Red Wolf,\u201d already being made into a movie. About that book, Rushdie writes, it is \u201chighly original, its language surging with power, its imagination all-encompassing. Marlon is a writer who must be read.\u201d\n\nThen, stand-up Comic & host of CNN\u2019s \u201cUnited Shades of America\u201d W. Kamau Bell\u2019s Twitter bio reads, \u201cI tell jokes, but I\u2019m not kidding.\u201d Find out what he means in this exclusive, full-length interview.\n\nAnd finally, Spike Lee gives us his perfect movie double bill!