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| 11: The Neverending Story (Part 2) - Narrator Chael | 14 May 2025 | 00:38:36 | |
My friend Chael (@NarratorChael) is back to discuss one of her favorite books from her tweenage years: Michael Ende's THE NEVERENDING STORY. Written by a man whose artist father was literally persecuted for being degenerate by the Nazis, THE NEVERENDING STORY is a beautiful consideration on depression and passion and what it means to be a child in a world that really seems to hate children. The second hour of our show will be dropping next week! Chael's other work includes the podcasts Once Upon a Rewatch (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/once-upon-a-rewatch/id1553803675) and Vampires Ruined My Life (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vampires-ruined-my-life/id1584585139). More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 10: The Neverending Story | 07 May 2025 | 00:33:01 | |
My friend Chael (@NarratorChael) is back to discuss one of her favorite books from her tweenage years: Michael Ende's THE NEVERENDING STORY. Written by a man whose artist father was literally persecuted for being degenerate by the Nazis, THE NEVERENDING STORY is a beautiful consideration on depression and passion and what it means to be a child in a world that really seems to hate children. Make sure to subscribe to get the second installment on THE NEVERENDING STORY next week! Chael's other work includes the podcasts Once Upon a Rewatch (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/once-upon-a-rewatch/id1553803675) and Vampires Ruined My Life (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vampires-ruined-my-life/id1584585139).
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| 1: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Dennis DiClaudio | 05 Mar 2025 | 01:28:34 | |
Greetings, Earthlings, Attic Wives, and Lit Witches! We are back with Season 7 of the moderately acclaimed podcast, Fuckbois of Literature! This week's kickoff episode features Dennis DiClaudio, one of the producers behind the incredible podcast, The Novelizers! If e'er there be a podcast you all would love, this is it. I hope you'll find the link below to subscribe and give it a listen. Dennis also has an awesome newsletter (available here), and you can find him on BlueSky and Instagram. At the wrap up, you'll hear that I released the full length episode for everyone this wee, but my dearly devoted Patrons, please know that you'll be back to being my special pets next week. And I'll have some bloomin' good extras for you soon! Find Emily Edwards online:
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| 5: Hercule Poirot - Andrew Rostan | 10 Mar 2021 | 00:57:40 | |
My dear friend Andrew Rostan (@AndrewRostan) is back from our Season 1 episode on David Foster Wallace to get to the conspicuous details of everyone’s favorite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Is he even a fuckboi? Andrew says yes, Emily says no. Listen to two nerds discuss Agatha Christie’s most famous mystery sleuth this week on Fuckbois of Literature. Watch the absolutely dynamite opening credits of AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT starring David Suchet here: https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/agatha-christies-poirot/ Follow FBOL: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 4: The Guide - Amrita By The Book | 03 Mar 2021 | 00:57:55 | |
Amrita (@AmritaIQ) from the dynamite #Booktube channel AMRITA BY THE BOOK ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A ) is here to discuss one of the most important texts from colonial India: R.K. Narayan’s THE GUIDE. Analogous to WIlliam Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County or LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, Narayan’s fictional Malgudi is home to Railway Raju, a man who schemes, plans, and falls into becoming a point of spiritual hope in a drought-stricken community. You can also follow Amrita’s Bollywood film podcast here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-khandaan-podcast For a summary of THE GUIDE, skip to 28:01 Buy the book: https://bookshop.org/books/the-guide-9780143039648/9780143039648 Follow FBOL: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 3: The Age of Innocence - Jason Diamond | 24 Feb 2021 | 00:54:54 | |
Author and editor Jason Diamond (@ImJasonDiamond) joins us to discuss one of the most strikingly modern books of the 1920s, set in the 1870s: Edith Wharton's THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. Deserving of a modern critique on the blissful happiness and absolute despair of New York's Gilded Age, we discuss ostentatious wealth, literary anti-Semitism, and just how badly we miss going to parties.
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| 2: Scott Pilgrim - Andy Michaels | 17 Feb 2021 | 01:12:43 | |
Self-proclaimed comic book geek Andy Michaels (@StopThatAndy/@at0micgh0st) is here to discuss one of the more formative graphic novels of our shared teen/twenties years: SCOTT PILGRIM by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Twenty-three year old Scott has to battle Manic Pixie Dream Girl Ramona's seven evil exes in order to win her partnership– but he hasn't quite told his seventeen year old girlfriend, Knives Chau, that he's fighting for another girl's love. Exes, bands, and surprisingly racist caricatures come fighting in this poppy graphic novel series.
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| 1: Lady Chatterley's Lover - The Feminist Critique | 10 Feb 2021 | 01:00:41 | |
[CW] : SEXUAL ASSAULT, ABLEISM, SEXISM, HOMOPHOBIA D.H. Lawrence's much-maligned classic LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER gets a much needed FBOL critique with Aislene and Gracie of The Feminist Critique! The book was notorious for being the subject of a British obscenity trial, on the grounds of the language used in the book. But far and away, the most obscene aspects of Lady Chatterley and Mr. Mellors? Flowers where flowers shouldn't go. Keep in contact with THE FEMINIST CRITIQUE on their twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/feministcritique or on Twitter at @SouthofGrace @AisleneS and @FeministCrit Find FBOL • on Patreon at www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit • on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit • on Instagram at www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit • online at www.fuckboisoflit.com More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| BONUS: F boi of Literature, T.S. Eliot | 07 Jan 2021 | 00:18:01 | |
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is known more now as the source material for Andrew Lloyd Webber's coke-fueled nightmare of a stage show CATS and its subsequent and somehow scarier film released to cinemas in late 2019 starring an awful lot of people who should've known better. Its author, T.S. Eliot, was one of the most famous poets to emerge from the era of modernism, and carries with him many of the hallmarks of the literary movement, including but not limited to: virulent antisemitism, a fascist leaning, and really effed up relationships to women. LINK TO FULL TEXT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pHU987DUT4UOZqYPDwkZz_8g7tb_hHp91aTkCFqCelE/edit?usp=sharing More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 38: Christmas Eve - Dani Ryan | 23 Dec 2020 | 00:45:21 | |
My favorite guest Danielle Ryan (@DaniRat) is here to talk all about Nikolai Gogol’s novella, CHRISTMAS EVE. While other stories revolve around the sweet baby Jesus asleep in his manger or maybe a tree, CHRISTMAS EVE acknowledges the existence of the Church but is mostly about how the entire city of Dykanka is here to fuck with the Devil. Read the full text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Night_of_Christmas_Eve Follow FBOL on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY (from Wikipedia) The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints religious art in the church. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 37: Nothing Lasts Forever - Val | 16 Dec 2020 | 01:00:47 | |
Val (@WhiskeyAndSpite) from our episode on CALL ME BY YOUR NAME was kind enough to sit with me the day before the 2020 election, talk me off a ledge, and discuss 1979's fucked up classic NOTHING LASTS FOREVER, which you might know better as 1988's action movie classic DIE HARD. It's the only book-to-screen adaptation where EVERYTHING is different and EVERYTHING is the same. Follow FBOL on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Follow FBOL on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY Joe Leland, a retired police detective, P.I., and terrorism expert, is visiting his daughter Steffie at her high-powered holiday Christmas party in Los Angeles, that eventually becomes a hostage situation for a group of sociopathic Nazi terrorists. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 36: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Liv Albert of MYTHS, BABY | 09 Dec 2020 | 01:15:49 | |
Liv Albert of the phenomenal podcast LET'S TALK ABOUT MYTHS, BABY is here to discuss her new book, as well as a perennial favorite of ours: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde. It's our first Wilde podcast in two years! Pre-order Liv's new book here: https://www.mythsbaby.com/book Follow Liv @MythsBaby or @LivyRants Follow FBOL @FuckboisofLit or @MsEmilyEdwards About our Sponsor BIRMINGHAM-BASED female and non-bianry writer’s group; Script Sirens have created an exciting new project. Script Sirens Presents...Siren Screams is a six part horror series consisting of six 10 - 20 minute audio plays available to listen to on Spotify, Acast Google Podcast and more. Each episode is a standalone story with vibrant characters, immersive sound effects and unforgettable vocal performances from a range of West Midlands based Actors. Listen now: Spotify https://spoti.fi/2ImTe7b Acast https://bit.ly/3f3yUUP Apple https://apple.co/3kHpXSm Google https://bit.ly/3pzhvYZ iHeratRadio ihr.fm/33itJvs Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube - @scriptsirens SUMMARY Painter Basil Hallward has a secret– he's met his muse, in a 17 year old boy named Dorian Gray. Unable to hide his secret obsession, he introduces Dorian to his friend, Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry, known to be a cad and leading rather the extravagent life, delights in teasing the boy and introducing him to a path off the straight and narrow. As Dorian toys more with habits and proclivities not endorsed by Victorian society, the portrait of himself painted by Basil begins to physically alter. After approximately three murders, Dorian finally meets his downfall after several decades.More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 35: King Lear - Avant Bard | 02 Dec 2020 | 00:51:35 | |
Friends! This week's show features the phenomenal podcasters behind the Avant Bard podcast (@AvantBardPod), Megan and Marquez! This week, we discuss sexy blood orgies, the good servants, and how we thought Twitter would be the politician truth teller. Alas. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to Avant Bard today! https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/avant-bard/id1519249531LOVE FBOL?Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflitFollow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflitSUMMARYAt the opening of the play, Gloucester announces to the room that his favorite kid is a bastard. It all gets worse from there when King Lear declares his daughters should beg for his benevolence by having an adoration competition to see who inherits his kingdom while he goes off into a Jimmy Buffett style retirement of drinking and carousing. The two oldest, Goneril and Regan, get into shenanigans while Cordelia just gets married off to the King of France. Literally everyone dies. Spoiler alert.More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| FBOL Presents: Season 7 Trailer | 20 Feb 2025 | 00:01:59 | |
F***bois of Literature returns to your pod catchers March 5th, 2025! Keep in touch with the show by liking, subscribing, or sharing the news!
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| 34: The Sandman - Heath Miller | 18 Nov 2020 | 00:49:25 | |
[CONTENT WARNING: Torture and sexual assault.] Actor and audiobook narrator Heath Miller (Twitter: @VeryHeathMiller, Audible books here) is here to talk about Neal Gaiman’s seminal graphic novel series, THE SANDMAN. Emily confesses she finds it super hard to read “through” graphic novels, Heath admits that he’d really urge people to start after the first book in the series during which people gouge out their own eyes. Follow FBOL on Social Media! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit Read the summary of the series on Neil Gaiman’s website here More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 33: Beowulf - Kevin Sonney | 11 Nov 2020 | 00:50:29 | |
Kevin Sonney (@ksonney) of Productivity Alchemy (productivityalchemy.com) is here to discuss Maria Dahvana Headley's new translation of BEOWULF (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374110031). Beo gets a "bro!" update that somehow manages to make him the most noble of the literary fuckbois we've discussed to date. Follow FBOL on: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY (From Wikipedia) The story is set in Scandinavia in the 6th century. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland (Götaland in modern Sweden) and becomes king of the Geats. Fifty years later, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is mortally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower on a headland in his memory. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 32: Les Misérables - Jonathan Ade | 04 Nov 2020 | 01:10:52 | |
Our guest from our FRANNY & ZOOEY episode, Jonathan Ade (@jonathanade on Twitter and @JonoKino on Instagram) is here to discuss another deeply spiritual and revolutionary work Les Misérables. Yes, we discuss the musical, our own religious pasts, and all sorts of wonderful stuff.Follow Fuckbois of Lit on Social MediaTwitter: @FuckboisOfLitInstagram: @FuckboisOfLitBe a patron: www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflitSUMMARYApproximately 40 years after the French Revolution, France is still in shambles. A prisoner named Jean Valjean becomes the adoptive guardian of a street urchin named Cosette, whose mother, Fantine, died while working off her debts to the family with whom she left her baby, a hotelier named Thenardier. Jean Valjean is relentlessly hunted by a police officer named Javert. When Cosette ages, a man named Marius falls achingly and pathetically in love with her, and risks his own fortune to follow his political and romantic heart.More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 31: American Horror: From Poe to Grady Hendrix | 29 Oct 2020 | 01:02:37 | |
Emily and Corinne from Hybrid Pub Scout (@hybridpubscout) are here to discuss all sorts of spooky scary things about American horror. From modern day workplace creeps to what to do if you're so racist you die, we're feeling the cold hand of darkness reach through the veil* * okay, we just have a fun chat about ghosts and stuff. Follow FBOL on Social Media! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflitMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 30: Wishbone - Cat Cardenas | 14 Oct 2020 | 00:30:45 | |
Co-author of the wildly viral article on the 25th anniversary of PBS's WISHBONE series, Cat Cardenas (@catrcardenas) stops by to talk about Texas, Diversity, and irresistibly cute dogs. What else is there?Read the article here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/wishbone-oral-history/ Follow FBOL on Social Media!Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflitInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflitPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflitMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 29: Lady Susan - Bethany Brookshire | 07 Oct 2020 | 01:12:22 | |
Our guest from our FRANKENSTEIN episode, Bethany Brookshire (@beebrookshire) is back to discuss a slightly less Halloweeny tale: Jane Austen's LADY SUSAN. Another one for our absolute pantheon of Lady Fuckbois, LADY SUSAN and the recent film adaptation called LOVE & FRIENDSHIP starring Kate Beckinsale gives us something we've always wanted: a slightly villainous lady who gets punished in proportion to her crimes. Follow FBOL on Social Media!Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit Read LADY SUSAN for free: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/946/946-h/946-h.htm SUMMARY: An epistolary novel that young Jane Austen did not see published in her lifetime, LADY SUSAN follows the love and power trials of one Lady Susan, a recently widowed woman of few means who must rely on her wit and cunning to keep her in the status she so richly deserves. While plying her trade on wealthy young men and her own daughter, her sister-in-law does what she can to protect her own family's honor. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 28: Jurassic Park - Samantha Endres | 30 Sep 2020 | 00:54:19 | |
Samantha Endres, content creator for Jurassic Outpost (@SamanthaJo28/ @JurassicOutpost) is here to discuss the most classic sci-fi nightmare of our Millennial childhoods: JURASSIC PARK. The horror of cloning and genetic engineering was the specter of the 1990s, only exacerbated by huge, headline-grabbing innovations that are reflected in the hellscape of 2020. Love Fuckbois of Lit? Follow us on Instagram and Twitter! twitter.com/fuckboisoflit instagram.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY Dr. Alan Grant is a paleontologist who specializes in surmising animal behavior from their fossils. One day, he receives a summons from his largest benefactor, John Hammond, to take a trip to a mysterious island off the coast of Costa Rica. With his scientific partner, Dr. Ellie Sattler, he joined on the trip by mathematician Ian Malcolm, attorney Donald Gennaro, and Hammond's two grandchildren, Tim and Lex, to tour a well-staffed but under-secured zoo of cloned dinosaurs. Almost everyone gets eaten, including people who weren't in the movie. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 27: A Midsummer Night's Dream - A.J. Feuerman | 23 Sep 2020 | 00:47:28 | |
Publicist and all-around fangirl of things, A.J. Feuerman (@AJFeuerman) is here to discuss her longstanding love for the weird Shakespearean sex farce, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. This bonkers play is not-so-secretly about women's choices and agency, with a nice dash of romance and sisterly bonds. It's so, so much more than Puck. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @FuckboisOfLit http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY In ancient Athens, two men and two women are in a battle of love. Hermia is in love with Lysander, but her father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius was partnered with Hermia's best friend, Helena, until Egeus offered him a different deal. Local leader Theseus, on the eve of his own wedding to the Amazon warrior Hippolyta, declares Hermia to do as her father wishes, so Hermia and Lysander escape to the woods, to travel to his grandmother's house to get married. Meanwhile, faerie king Oberon wants to play a trick on his wife, Titania, so he orders his minion Puck to drug her to make her fall in love with the first thing she sees– hopefully the monstrous Bottom, a weaver who has been turned into a donkey. In addition to drugging Titania, Puck messes up and drugs Lysander and Demetrius in succession, making them both fall in love with Helena, leaving Hermia alone and confused. The play resolves in typical Shakespearean comedy fashion– with weddings. But who will be wedded to whom? More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 26: Ivanhoe - A.R. Vishny | 16 Sep 2020 | 00:49:13 | |
Writer A.R. Vishny (@AR_Vishny) is here to discuss the 1819 swashbuckling epic IVANHOE by Sir Walter Scott. This swashbuckling epic has everything: damsels in distress, a couple hundred pages discussing a knight's tournament, a swineherd named Gurth, and just piles and piles of anti-Semitism. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @FuckboisOfLit http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit SUPPORT US ON PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY It's the late 1100s and the Crusades are over. The Templars are back in England and looking to rumble. Wilfred of Ivanhoe is back from Jerusalem hoping to marry the beautiful Rowena. Wilfred's dad, Cedric, isn't keen on their pairing. Meanwhile, Prince John, still in charge while Richard the Lionheart is MIA, holds a tournament where the beautiful Jewish woman, Rebecca, is making her debut on the arm of her father Isaac, who is currently in John's favor for lending the Prince money. After the tournament, Rowena, a comatose Ivanhoe, Isaac, and Rebecca are kidnapped by a pack of Templars– Bois-Guilbert and deBracy, who hope to make the women their wives or concubines. King Richard, Ivanhoe, and Robin Hood (!!!) band together to save the hostages and, eventually, Rebecca from being burned at the stake for being a witch. It's chaos. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 13: Sideways - Delondra Mesa | 09 Sep 2020 | 00:58:28 | |
Screenwriter Delondra Mesa (Black Summer, Step Up: High Water, on Twitter at @DelondraMesa) is here to talk about wine, whiteness, and wealth in Rex Pickett's 2004 best-seller, SIDEWAYS. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @FuckboisOfLit http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Love FBOL? Become a Patron! http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY Jack is getting married and his best friend and best man, Miles, is taking him for a week-long bachelor trip to the Santa Ynez Valley for some wine-tasting and relaxing. Miles, a failing writer, and Jack, a trust-fund womanizer, take to the small and sleepy area like a tornado, with Jack desirous to have as many flings as he can before he walks down the aisle. Two unlucky women, Maya and Terra, get caught up in their shenanigans. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| S6E7: The Bridges of Madison County- Cayce Osborne | 14 Feb 2024 | 00:54:41 | |
Hi, everyone! Unfortunately, circumstances are way outside my control and this is the last episode of FBOL. I want to thank you all endlessly for being such an amazing community and audience. I had some fantastic books on the schedule, but because all of my equipment is toast and I don't know where I'll be living, when, and for how long, recording new episodes is off the table. The person who finds me with the best Attic Wife joke gets my enduring love. Please send some support to Cayce Osborne, who is an absolute gem and fantastic writer: More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 24: Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency - Bea Koch | 02 Sep 2020 | 01:03:17 | |
Bea Koch's new book, MAD & BAD: REAL HEROINES OF THE REGENCY is the subject of this week's episode! Bea owns The Ripped Bodice bookstore with her sister here in Los Angeles, and it's the only romance-exclusive bookstore on the West Coast.You can order a signed copy of Bea's book directly from her bookstore here, while supplies last: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/product/mad-and-bad-real-heroines-regency-bea-koch-signedTowards the end of the show, I mention a BBC documentary series about the inter-relationship between Africa & Britain. It's called AFRICA & BRITAIN: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct5bdh Become a Patron: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflitFollow FBOL on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflitFollow FBOL on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflitMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| Fuckbois of Classical Music: Debussy | 28 Aug 2020 | 00:07:14 | |
The guy who brought you CLARE DE LUNE and other tunes you use to fall asleep at night is here to whip you up into a frenzy of adultery, suicide threats, and complete and total smackdowns with other composers. Claude Debussey was a total piece of garbage. Transcript: http://bit.ly/FBoLDebussey--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/messageMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| Fuckbois of Classical Music: Berlioz | 21 Aug 2020 | 00:05:49 | |
French composer Hector Berlioz had a little secret: he was a fucking stalker. Exacting his obsession on THREE separate women that we know of, Berlioz was most famous for one particularly hair-brained, cross-dressing, thankfully-failed murder plot. Listen now! TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/FBoLBerlioz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/messageMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| Fuckbois of Classical Music: Puccini | 14 Aug 2020 | 00:07:02 | |
What do you get when you cross approximately $200million, an aversion to monogamy, and Italian tempers? The sordid life of Giacomo Puccini, one of the world's most famous opera composers. Puccini's life was FILLED with affairs, questionable deaths, and surprisingly little VD. TRANSCRIPT available here: https://bit.ly/FBoLPuccini
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| Fuckbois of Classical Music: Paganini | 07 Aug 2020 | 00:05:16 | |
It's not really a sign of a life well lived when everyone accuses you of selling your soul to the Devil. Niccolo Paganini was the 1800s equivalent to Marilyn Manson, only with a lot more talent. His life was filled with debauchery, and ended on a very sour note. Listen to our first bonus ep on the Fuckbois of Classical Music now! TRANSCRIPT available here: https://bit.ly/FBoLPaganini --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/messageMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 23: Poldark - Cat Valente | 22 Jul 2020 | 00:57:02 | |
NYT/USA Today Bestselling author Cat Valente (@CatValente) is here to dish about Cornwall's biggest fuckboi-- Ross Poldark! The myth of war heroism, what to do with maturing kitchenmaids, and how to screw over unscrupulous bankers is discussed at hilarious length. To pick up a copy of Cat's books, click here: https://bookshop.org/shop/fuckboisoflit For a transcript of this episode, visit our website: https://www.fuckboisoflit.com/episodes/2020/7/22/episode-63-poldark Summary of ROSS POLDARK, the first book in the POLDARK series: Ross Poldark, son of the second son of a noble family, returns home from fighting for the British in the American Revolutionary War, to find his father deceased and his childhood love, Elizabeth, engaged to marry his good-for-nothing cousin, Francis Poldark. Ross, left with little money and a dilapidated farm and dried-up copper mine, is left to make his fortune with his own know-how. While taking out loans to furnish and fit his farm for productivity, he runs across an abused urchin girl named Demelza, whom he rescues to become his kitchen maid. Ross quickly becomes the talk of the town for his unusual habits, and his friendliness with his tenants. As the book spans several years, Demelza ages and dynamics of the Poldark family change, as Francis's land-owning father dies, Elizabeth bears the Poldark family a son, and Francis uses his family money to gamble and live a life of luxury he can't seem to afford, tempted by the wealthy, "new money" scion, George Warleggen. Demelza, upon turning 17, covinces Ross to marry her. The book ends with Demelza announcing her first pregnancy. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 22: The Three Musketeers - Justin Aucoin | 15 Jul 2020 | 00:56:30 | |
Writer Justin Aucoin (@JMAucoin_writer) joins host Emily Edwards to discuss Porthos, Athos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, also known as the most hard-drinking, wife-stealing, sword-playing French swashbucklers, THE THREE MUSKETEERS. We discuss the appeal of male ride-or-die friendships, Alexander Dumas's multi-racial approach to writing for racist readers, and wine. Lots of wine. Buy books discussed on the show at our Bookshop.org page: https://bookshop.org/lists/fbol-subjects For a transcript of our show, visit https://www.fuckboisoflit.com/episodes/2020/7/22/episode-62-the-three-musketeers Summary of THE THREE MUSKETEERS: Coming of age in the souther, rural province of Gascony, D'Artagnan aways to Paris upon his 18th year to follow in his father's footsteps to become one of the king's guards, called The Musketeers. Upon his first day in Paris, he gets into duels with the original Three: Porthos, Athos, and Aramis. He proves himself worthy to the men, and they take him on as a fourth confidant, in their schemes to protect the King and Queen against the conniving Cardinal Richelieu. In addition to a new nemesis in the Cardinal, D'Artagnan eventually finds himself at odds with the Cardinal's lead assassin, Milady, and at the center of a kidnapping plot when the woman he loves– Constance, the wife of D'Artagnan's landlord– is taken from him in an effort to convince him to stop meddling in Richelieu's machinations. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 21: The Maltese Falcon - David Avallone | 08 Jul 2020 | 01:06:00 | |
Writer David Avallone (@DAvallone) is back on the show to discuss another post- WWI pulpy text: Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON. What is it about the chaos after the first World War that led us to this cynicism? Where does a Private I stand on sex? And is there a sea change in the power binaries of male vs. female? Summary of THE MALTESE FALCON Sam Spade and his partner, Miles Archer, are approached by a beautiful woman named Miss Wonderley, who claims her sister has been taken by a no-goodnik gangster named Floyd Thursby. Archer takes the first night of surveillance, and is mysteriously shot-- as is the prime suspect of Thursby. Thrown onto the case, Spade quickly uncovers many secrets-- that Miss Wonderley is actually a treasure-hunter named Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and that she's in bed with another court of criminals to abscond with a bird figurine made on the island of Malta by the Knights Templar that is worth millions of dollars. Spade, who was sleeping with Archer's wife and begins hooking up with O'Shaugnessy almost immediately, is being followed by the police as the lead suspect in both murders. Two other men after the falcon-- Joel Cairo and Caspar Gutman-- continually make attempts on Spade's life, as Spade tracks down the falcon and uncovers the figurine's secret, and the identity of his partner's murderer. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 20: The Phantom of the Opera - Kerri Kearse | 01 Jul 2020 | 01:14:36 | |
Our guest from our Greek Mythology episode is back! Kerri Kearse (@_iamlivingcolor) is here to get theater nerdy with us about THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Gaston Leroux! We talk about diverse casting, social ostracizing, and Ramin Karimloo's abdominal muscles. Listen, we're just covering all the bases of this WILD book/play. Summary of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA While attending a landmark performance at the Paris Opera, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny is pleased to find that his childhood playmate and lifelong love, Christine Daaé, is onstage as the understudy for the female lead who has suddenly taken ill. A star-making performance, Christine gives her all during her solo and collapses onstage. Raoul rushes to her side and they re-kindle a friendship and romance that is squelched by mysterious happenings at the opera-- the Opera Ghost is making demands, murdering stage-hands, and even goes so far as to kidnap Christine. Raoul, with the help of a mysterious man only known as The Persian, must venture forth into the bowels of the Opera House to save Christine, though the Opera Ghost will do everything in his murderous powers to stop them. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| Doctor Sleep / The Shining - Dave Child | 26 Jun 2020 | 00:27:42 | |
For our sequel on THE SHINING, Dave Child (@MrDaveChild) tackles the sequel to THE SHINING, the book-turned-movie, DOCTOR SLEEP. How does generational trauma get healed? How do you tackle having written a racist text? Can Ewan McGregor save even the worst film ever written? Summary of THE SHINING by Stephen King A young family is moved to an isolated hotel after the father, Jack Torrance, has taken a position there as a winter caretaker. His wife, Wendy, is concerned for her husband but is desperate to create a functioning family unit for them and their son, Danny, who is five. Jack has seen several speed bumps in the past few years– a stagnation of his writing career, a termination of his employment at a posh private school for boys, a drinking habit, and several moments of unhinged abuse focused on his son, one time even going so far as to break his son's arm. Danny, who has often had psychic visions courtesy his "imaginary friend," Tony. Tony has warned Danny about the hotel, as does the departing chef of the hotel, Dick Hallorann, who teaches Danny about his gift, or "shining," in a fleeting few minutes before Dick leaves the family at the hotel for winter. Danny's Shining ability lends him to having a psychic connection with the hotel, and all of its malevolent spirits who are taking control of Jack Torrance, who inevitably loses his tether to reality and eventually goes on a destructive tear against his family, to be saved in the end by Danny's psychic connection to all those who have the Shine. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| S6E6: Jane Austen Adaptations, Pride + Protest - Bianca Hernandez-Knight | 07 Feb 2024 | 00:28:29 | |
Bianca Hernandez-Knight (@BookHoarding) is back for the first time since our Northanger Abbey episode to discuss Jane Austen and the politics of adapting her. We're focusing on Nikki Payne's brilliant "Pride + Protest," but it's a multifaceted conversation about interacting with Austen, her world, and ours. Step aside, tradwives. Jane belongs to other people now. Find Bianca across social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biancahernandez/?hl=en Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/0368683034fe/bookhoarding Linktree for others: https://linktr.ee/bookhoarding
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| 19: The Shining - Dave Child | 24 Jun 2020 | 01:00:41 | |
Happy Belated Father's Day, fellow Quarantine-Americans. We're talking about one abusive dad's descent into madness and what it teaches us about racism on this week's FBOL. Brilliant friend and frequent guest Dave Child (@MrDaveChild) joins host Emily Edwards to impart some empathy and perspective on a typically midcentury American tale of dread. Summary of THE SHINING: A young family is moved to an isolated hotel after the father, Jack Torrance, has taken a position there as a winter caretaker. His wife, Wendy, is concerned for her husband but is desperate to create a functioning family unit for them and their son, Danny, who is five. Jack has seen several speed bumps in the past few years– a stagnation of his writing career, a termination of his employment at a posh private school for boys, a drinking habit, and several moments of unhinged abuse focused on his son, one time even going so far as to break his son's arm. Danny, who has often had psychic visions courtesy his "imaginary friend," Tony. Tony has warned Danny about the hotel, as does the departing chef of the hotel, Dick Hallorann, who teaches Danny about his gift, or "shining," in a fleeting few minutes before Dick leaves the family at the hotel for winter. Danny's Shining ability lends him to having a psychic connection with the hotel, and all of its malevolent spirits who are taking control of Jack Torrance, who inevitably loses his tether to reality and eventually goes on a destructive tear against his family, to be saved in the end by Danny's psychic connection to all those who have the Shine. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 19: The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon - Dana Schwartz | 17 Jun 2020 | 00:36:12 | |
Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz), author of three novels and host of the NOBLE BLOOD podcast (http://noblebloodtales.com/) joins host Emily Edwards to discuss her book THE WHITE MAN'S GUIDE TO WHITE MALE WRITERS OF THE WESTERN CANON. Who is the subject of the criticism? What's "punching up"? And can dudes please stop already? More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 18: The Yellow Wallpaper - Danielle Ryan | 10 Jun 2020 | 00:45:38 | |
One of our favorite guests, Danielle Ryan (@danirat), returns to discuss madness, white feminism, and racism with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic short story THE YELLOW WALLPAPER. If you've been feeling the stress of being cooped up and also the suffocating pressure of America's systemic racism, Gilman's high-school-reading-list classic is the choice for you. Summary of THE YELLOW WALLPAPER (from wikipedia) The story describes a young woman and her husband, who imposes as a rest cure on her when she suffers "temporary nervous depression" after the birth of their baby. They spend the summer at a colonial mansion, where the narrator is largely confined to an upstairs nursery. The story makes striking use of an unreliable narrator in order to gradually reveal the degree to which her husband has imprisoned her: she describes torn wallpaper, barred windows, metal rings in the walls, a floor "scratched and gouged and splintered," a bed bolted to the floor, and a gate at the top of the stairs, but blames all these on children who must have resided there. The narrator devotes many journal entries to describing the wallpaper in the room – its "sickly" color, its "yellow" smell, its bizarre and disturbing pattern like "an interminable string of toadstools, budding and sprouting in endless convolutions," its missing patches, and the way it leaves yellow smears on the skin and clothing of anyone who touches it. She describes how the longer one stays in the bedroom, the more the wallpaper appears to mutate, especially in the moonlight. With no stimulus other than the wallpaper, the pattern and designs become increasingly intriguing to the narrator. She soon begins to see a figure in the design and eventually comes to believe that a woman is creeping on all fours behind the pattern. Believing she must free the woman in the wallpaper, the woman begins to strip the remaining paper off the wall. When her husband arrives home, the narrator refuses to unlock her door. When he returns with the key, he finds her creeping around the room, rubbing against the wallpaper, and exclaiming "I've got out at last... in spite of you." He faints, but she continues to circle the room, creeping over his inert body each time she passes it, believing herself to have become the woman trapped behind the yellow wallpaper. Read the story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm --- More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 17: Batman - Andy Michaels | 03 Jun 2020 | 00:56:52 | |
The ethical quagmire of the existence of the billionaire gets a bit easier when you're confronted with the reality of Bruce Wayne. Guest Andy Michaels (from our episode on the X-MEN in season one, @StopThatAndy) is here to talk about white, WASPy privilege and, possibly, the need for super-hero therapists. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| Paul Gauguin - A.M. Ridley - Fuckbois of Art History | 28 May 2020 | 00:14:40 | |
A.M. Ridley is back to discuss one of the most disturbing fuckbois of art history: Paul Gauguin. What do you get when you mix horrible sexual predilections with colonialism and color? A fucking Gauguin painting of Tahiti. [CW] Sexual abuse & statutory rape. Gauguin is a monster. Flat out. But context, as always, is what matters. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/messageMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 16: Cat's Cradle - Miles Klee | 27 May 2020 | 00:55:31 | |
What does Hollywood Boulevard have to do with the Atomic Bomb and systemic racism? Well, all three topics of conversation get woven into our discussion with Miles Klee (@MilesKlee) on Kurt Vonnegut's classic sci-fi and sociology novel, CAT'S CRADLE. We wanted to know: does the book still work like it did when we were teens, before we realized it was satire? Summary of CAT'S CRADLE John, the narrator, is looking to write a book about the history of the Atomic bomb and becomes obsessed with the children of a (fictional) scientist named Felix Hoenekker, who was instrumental in the breakthrough of nuclear weapons. John follows the children– Frank, the eldest son; Nate, the youngest son who is also a little person; and daughter Angela– to the poverty-stricken island nation of San Lorenzo, where John discovers that the most beautiful woman in the world, Mona, is engaged to Frank despite that John has decided he must have her. On San Lorenzo, John is also introduced to the fake religion Bokononism, which has been worshipped and vilified by the government, in order to control the populace. While on San Lorenzo, John discovers that the mythical ice-nine, a chemical that can turn all of the water it touches into solid ice, was indeed invented by Felix Hoenekker, and that each of his children have a grain. Thanks to the nation of San Lorenzo's careless war-games, the grains of ice-nine hit the ocean and cause an cataclysmic event. John and Mona survive, and emerge to the earth's surface to find most of humanity dead. Buy a copy of the novel and support your local indie bookseller through our Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/fbol-subjects/ More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| The Ninja Turtles - A.M. Ridley - Fuckbois of Art History | 22 May 2020 | 00:14:45 | |
Literature sure as hell isn't the only art form with an endless supply of Fuckbois. A.M. Ridley joins me for a few short episodes on the Fuckbois of Art History, proceeding with the most famous painters of all time. Turns out, it wasn't all chapels n' helicopters. Woohoo! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/messageMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 15: Hamlet - Jude Ellison S. Doyle | 20 May 2020 | 00:46:36 | |
Jude Ellison Doyle (@sadydoyle), writer and author of Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power and Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss the most famous play about a really, really bad spring break: HAMLET.
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| Caravaggio - A.M. Ridley - Fuckbois of Art History | 14 May 2020 | 00:16:39 | |
Literature sure as hell isn't the only art form with an endless supply of Fuckbois. A.M. Ridley joins me for a few short episodes on the Fuckbois of Art History, starting with one of the biggest shitheels of all time: Caravaggio. There were... issues. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/messageMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 14: Paradise Lost - Dr. Anthony Oliveira | 13 May 2020 | 01:00:08 | |
Dr. Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) joined host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) for a conversation about– what else?– John Milton's PARADISE LOST. We get into the nitty gritty of what it means to be a lapsed Catholic who connects a bit too much with Satan, the role this poem had on Romantic literature and literature of the post-Victorian age, plus all the ways the Bible interacts with women. It's a must-listen! Summary of PARADISE LOST Lucifer, the sexiest, best Angel, wants to know why God keeps so many secrets. God, pissed, banishes Lucifer from Heaven, creating the Devil and Hell. Lucifer, continuously pissed off, has decided to sabotage God's most coveted creation: Adam and Eve. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 5: Under the Tuscan Sun - Lynne Streeter Childress | 31 Jan 2024 | 00:38:29 | |
I am not above telling you that I suffered through our last three books. They were awful, and they made me sad, not in the way that TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES made me sad, but sad for real life people. But this book doesn't. Not one bit. Lynne Childress's podcast, FINE BEATS AND CHEESES, is also a wonderful time, so please do go listen to it. They're incredible. Fine Beats & Cheeses show: https://fine-beats-cheeses.captivate.fm/ More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 13: Breakfast At Tiffany's - Gaby Dunn | 06 May 2020 | 00:59:20 | |
The phenomenal comedian, writer, and podcast host Gaby Dunn (@gabydunn) is here to discuss BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY's by Truman Capote. We get into white girl privilege (from which we both benefitted), the early 2000s club scene, and #OwnVoices writing. Keep in contact with Gaby's shows, Just Between Us (https://www.youtube.com/user/justbetweenusshow) and Bad With Money (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/bad-with-money), too! Summary of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S A nameless narrator moves into a small apartment in New York City, only to become obsessed with his neighbor, a call girl named Holly Golightly. He learns of Holly's various affairs and schemes– being a messenger for a gangster, arranging a marriage with a gay millionaire, and running away with a Brazilian party boy, all in an attempt to hide her whereabouts from the man who forced her into marriage when she was fourteen. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| 12: Carry On - Philip Ellis | 29 Apr 2020 | 00:57:13 | |
Philip Ellis (@philip_ellis), the amazing guest from Season 1's show on GONE GIRL is here to discuss Rainbow Rowell's 2015 YA wizard romance, CARRY ON. The first book of the Simon Snow series, CARRY ON begs us to ask: what is the difference between being a fuckboi and being a teenager? Safe for teens, after listening to this episode, you'll want to shove CARRY ON into your tween's grubby mitts. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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| Frankenstein (Part 2) - Bethany Brookshire | 17 Apr 2020 | 00:34:36 | |
We get more into the nitty-gritty grossness of medical procedures in this bonus episode with Bethany Brookshire (@BeeBrookshire)! Content Warning if you get queasy over bodily stuff. But fast forward to the 2nd half to hear us shit-talk Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, as god intended. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!
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