Episodes

  • 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
  • Episode 69 - Fanny Hill

    Episode 69 - Fanny Hill
    Jul 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-ninth episode (nice) we recap the first (?) known pornographic work to use the novel as its form: John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748). We see a weaponised Measuringworth and learn the joys of giant maypoles, turtlebilling, and plenipontentary instruments.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: John Gay, 'Overture' in The Beggar's Opera (1728).

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 20: A Streetcar Named Desire

    SMFMS Bookends 20: A Streetcar Named Desire
    Jun 25 2025
    The twentieth 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 Streetcar episode.

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    28 mins
  • Episode 68 - A Streetcar Named Desire

    Episode 68 - A Streetcar Named Desire
    Jun 18 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-eighth episode, we recap Tennessee Williams's most famous work, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). Abby stresses out after some massive audio equipment failure and Daniel reveals himself to be both the podcast's Brando AND a thriving gay man.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Daniel Jenkin-Smith, 'Trolley Problem'.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 19: Ulysses

    SMFMS Bookends 19: Ulysses
    May 28 2025
    The ninteenth 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 Ulysses episode.

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    36 mins
  • Episode 67b - Ulysses, Part Two

    Episode 67b - Ulysses, Part Two
    May 21 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 second half of James Joyce's 800-page inscruitable Modernist Masterpiece, Ulysses. Here we recap the 'Nausicaa' chapter, which got the book banned in the first place, and speculate on if such an achievement in literature angered the gods.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: 'The Rocky Road to Dublin'.

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    1 hr and 2 mins