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
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  • Episode 62 - Little Women

    Episode 62 - Little Women
    Dec 25 2024

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixty-second episode and Christmas Special, we plunge through the ice into Louisa May Alcott's bildungsroman and first strong example of girls' YA fiction, Little Women (1869). We declare an ethno-feud on the Germans, figure out which March sister is the Wario, and discuss which is worse (in Alcott's universe): hitting or hitting on a minor.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Émile Waldteufel, 'The Skaters' Waltz', Op. 183 (1882)


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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 13: Heart of Darkness

    SMFMS Bookends 13: Heart of Darkness
    Dec 4 2024
    The thirteenth 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 Heart of Darkness episode.

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    29 mins
  • Episode 61 - Heart of Darkness

    Episode 61 - Heart of Darkness
    Nov 27 2024

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixty-first episode, we finally cover the most glaring omission on the show: Joseph Conrad's 1899 pre-modernism Imperial Gothic novella, Heart of Darkness. We close the circuit on our Things Fall Apart episode from S2 and get a cool International Man of Mystery sting which can sadly never be used in another episode.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Karol Szymanowski, 'Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28', 1915.



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    1 hr and 17 mins

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