Episodes

  • SMFMS Bookends 12: The Bloody Chamber

    SMFMS Bookends 12: The Bloody Chamber
    Nov 6 2024
    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.

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    38 mins
  • Episode 60 - The Bloody Chamber

    Episode 60 - The Bloody Chamber
    Oct 30 2024

    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.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Bela Bartok, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, an Opera in One Act, 1965.


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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • SMFMS Scheduling Update

    SMFMS Scheduling Update
    Oct 9 2024
    For the remainder of S5, we need to release all episodes at the end of every month, rather than in the mdidle.

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    1 min
  • SMFMS Bookends 11: Don Quixote, Part Two

    SMFMS Bookends 11: Don Quixote, Part Two
    Oct 2 2024
    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.

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    39 mins
  • Episode 59b - Don Quixote, Part Two

    Episode 59b - Don Quixote, Part Two
    Sep 25 2024

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the second part of our fifty-ninth episode, we tackle the remainder of the biggest book we've ever featured on the show: Miguel de Cervantes's Picaresque adventure, Don Quixote (1605).


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Manuel de Falla y Orquesta Nacional De Espana, 'Overture' in El Retablo De Maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show), 1957.


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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 10: Don Quixote, Part One

    SMFMS Bookends 10: Don Quixote, Part One
    Sep 18 2024
    The tenth 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 One episode.

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    37 mins
  • Episode 59a - Don Quixote, Part One

    Episode 59a - Don Quixote, Part One
    Sep 11 2024

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the first part of our fifty-ninth episode, we tackle the first half of the biggest book we've ever featured on the show: Miguel de Cervantes's Picaresque adventure, Don Quixote (1605).We look at its status as potential 'first novel', one of the most influential works of all time (from Shakespeare to Dumas to Forrest Gump), and debate which of the two hosts is the Quixote and which one is the Sancho Panza.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Manuel de Falla y Orquesta Nacional De Espana, 'Overture' in El Retablo De Maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show), 1957.


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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 9: To Kill a Mockingbird

    SMFMS Bookends 9: To Kill a Mockingbird
    Aug 21 2024
    The ninth 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 To Kill A Mockingbird episode.

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    37 mins