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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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  • SMFMS Bookends 22: Fahrenheit 451

    SMFMS Bookends 22: Fahrenheit 451
    Aug 20 2025
    The twenty-second 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 Fahrenheit 451 episode.

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    35 mins
  • Episode 70 - Fahrenheit 451

    Episode 70 - Fahrenheit 451
    Aug 13 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 seventieth episode, Ray Bradbury's literary-based dystopia, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), we get one step closer to EGOT-ing, see more of Abby's French-Canadian Vermonter roots, process Daniel's early cinema trauma, and discuss some scholastic terms: fridging, Bowlderisation, and Futurismo.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Tchaikovsky, 'Valse Sentimental' by Clara Rockmore on theramin.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 21: Fanny Hill

    SMFMS Bookends 21: Fanny Hill
    Jul 23 2025
    The twenty-first 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 Fanny Hill episode.

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    32 mins
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