Save Me From My Shelf

Jan 21 2025 97 ep. 56 mins 49
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We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.
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SMFMS Bookends 15: The Duchess of Malfi

Jan 21 2025 28 mins  
The fifteenth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Duchess of Malfi episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 63 - The Duchess of Malfi

Jan 14 2025 74 mins  
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixty-third episode, we open Season 6 with a look at banned and controversial books with John Webster's hyper-violent Jacobean revenge tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi (1614). This play gives us our first authentic himbo sting in a while, as well as an Oscars-worthy In Memoriam.Cover art © Catheri

SMFMS Bookends 14: Little Women

Dec 31 2024 38 mins  
The fourteenth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Little Women episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 62 - Little Women

Dec 24 2024 78 mins  
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixty-second episode and Christmas Special, we plunge through the ice into Louisa May Alcott's bildungsroman and first strong example of girls' YA fiction, Little Women (1869). We declare an ethno-feud on the Germans, figure out which March sister is the Wario, and discuss which is worse (in Alc

SMFMS Bookends 13: Heart of Darkness

Dec 03 2024 29 mins  
The thirteenth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Heart of Darkness episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 61 - Heart of Darkness

Nov 26 2024 76 mins  
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixty-first episode, we finally cover the most glaring omission on the show: Joseph Conrad's 1899 pre-modernism Imperial Gothic novella, Heart of Darkness. We close the circuit on our Things Fall Apart episode from S2 and get a cool International Man of Mystery sting which can sadly never be use

SMFMS Bookends 12: The Bloody Chamber

Nov 05 2024 37 mins  
The twelfth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our The Bloody Chamber episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 60 - The Bloody Chamber

Oct 29 2024 74 mins  
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixtieth episode and Halloween special, we examine Angela Carter's feminist novella and Bluebeard retelling (which is NOT an adult version of a fairy tale), The Bloody Chamber (1979). In this episode, Daniel expresses Carter-fatigue and we praise Carter's depiction of sex with someone gross.Cove

SMFMS Scheduling Update

Oct 08 2024
For the remainder of S5, we need to release all episodes at the end of every month, rather than in the mdidle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SMFMS Bookends 11: Don Quixote, Part Two

Oct 01 2024 38 mins  
The eleventh episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Don Quixote, Part Two episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.