Episodios

  • SMFMS Bookends 18: The Kite Runner

    SMFMS Bookends 18: The Kite Runner
    Apr 23 2025
    The eighteenth 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 Kite Runner episode.

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    27 m
  • Episode 66 - The Kite Runner

    Episode 66 - The Kite Runner
    Apr 16 2025

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal.


    This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-sixth episode, we examine Khaled Hosseini's 2003 redemption-and-brotherhood melodrama, The Kite Runner. In this episode, Daniel feels seen, gives a shout out to his friends in the Taliban, and tells us what he'd do if ever gifted a copy of Hitler's biography. Abby, meanwhile, becomes the angriest she's been since the Pamela episode.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


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    Episode Theme: Ustad Gada Mohammad, 'Rababa'.

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    1 h y 9 m
  • SMFMS Bookends 17: The Handmaid's Tale

    SMFMS Bookends 17: The Handmaid's Tale
    Mar 19 2025
    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 Handmaid's Tale episode.

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    34 m
  • Episode 65 - The Handmaid's Tale

    Episode 65 - The Handmaid's Tale
    Mar 12 2025

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal.


    This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-fifth episode (which coincides with International Women's Day), we examine Margaret Attwood's dystopia about far-right misogyny, The Handmaid's Tale (1985). Turkey basters and Orwell klaxons at the ready!


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Gabriel Faure, 'Pie Jesu', Requiem.

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    1 h y 13 m
  • SMFMS Bookends 16: Madame Bovary

    SMFMS Bookends 16: Madame Bovary
    Feb 19 2025
    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.

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    28 m
  • Episode 64 - Madame Bovary

    Episode 64 - Madame Bovary
    Feb 12 2025

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal.


    This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-fourth episode and Valentine's Day special, we spent some sexy time with Gustave Flaubert's adulteress, Madame Bovary (1856), which was immediately banned for offenses against morality under the conservative rule of Napoleon III. We also play 'Spot the "Big F*ck"', develop the hashtag #NotAllNuns, and watch a character go through a C19th French version of It's Always Sunny's 'The D.E.N.N.I.S. System'.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Charles Gounod, 'La nuit de Walpurgis' (Act V), Faust (1859), Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra

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    1 h y 11 m
  • SMFMS Bookends 15: The Duchess of Malfi

    SMFMS Bookends 15: The Duchess of Malfi
    Jan 22 2025
    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.

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    28 m
  • Episode 63 - The Duchess of Malfi

    Episode 63 - The Duchess of Malfi
    Jan 15 2025

    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 © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Carlo Gesualdo, Moro lasso al mio duolo (1611), Performed by the MIT Chamber Chorus.

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    1 h y 14 m
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