Episodes

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 mins