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Save Me From My Shelf

Save Me From My Shelf

By: Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith
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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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Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • Episode 67a - Ulysses, Part One

    Episode 67a - Ulysses, Part One
    May 7 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-seventh episode, we examine the first half of James Joyce's 800-page inscruitable Modernist Masterpiece, Ulysses. We make lots of connections to the Odyssey and wonder if Joyce--the filthy bugger--might have put his penis (or something worse, given his pecadillos) in a popcorn tub at Dublin's first cinema.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: 'The Rocky Road to Dublin'.

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    57 mins
  • 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 mins
  • 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 hr and 9 mins

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