Episodes

  • SMFMS Bookends 10: Don Quixote, Part One

    SMFMS Bookends 10: Don Quixote, Part One
    Sep 18 2024
    The tenth 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 Don Quixote, Part One episode.

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    37 mins
  • Episode 59a - Don Quixote, Part One

    Episode 59a - Don Quixote, Part One
    Sep 11 2024

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the first part of our fifty-ninth episode, we tackle the first half of the biggest book we've ever featured on the show: Miguel de Cervantes's Picaresque adventure, Don Quixote (1605).We look at its status as potential 'first novel', one of the most influential works of all time (from Shakespeare to Dumas to Forrest Gump), and debate which of the two hosts is the Quixote and which one is the Sancho Panza.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Manuel de Falla y Orquesta Nacional De Espana, 'Overture' in El Retablo De Maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show), 1957.


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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 9: To Kill a Mockingbird

    SMFMS Bookends 9: To Kill a Mockingbird
    Aug 21 2024
    The ninth 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 To Kill A Mockingbird episode.

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    37 mins
  • Episode 58 - To Kill a Mockingbird

    Episode 58 - To Kill a Mockingbird
    Aug 14 2024

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-eighth episode, we once again cross the Atlantic for Harper Lee's 1960 novel of racial injustice, To Kill A Mockingbird. We get some long-overdue Cornish slander, delve into the American legalistic mindset, and mutter a lot about grits and yams.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Daniel Jenkin-Smith on keyboard, 'Mockingbird Lullaby'.


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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 8: Through the Looking Glass

    SMFMS Bookends 8: Through the Looking Glass
    Aug 7 2024
    The eighth 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 Through the Looking Glass episode.

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    37 mins
  • Episode 57b - Through the Looking Glass

    Episode 57b - Through the Looking Glass
    Jul 31 2024

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the second part of our fifty-seventh episode, we recap Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1871) and discuss rare spatial reasoning issues, Abby's peasant background (which includes tunnel-corn), famous egg-men, and if a single move in chess is measured in speed or mobility.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Camille Saint-Saens, The Carnival of the Animals, '10 Voliere', played backwards.


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    58 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 7: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    SMFMS Bookends 7: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Jul 24 2024
    The seventh 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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland episode.

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    31 mins
  • Episode 57a - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Episode 57a - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Jul 17 2024

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the first part of our fifty-seventh episode, we regress to childhood and look at Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). We examine Lewis Carroll's sexual vs. artistic motives, take our first dive into nonsense literature, and celebrate confectionary, being mean to children, and Alice's criminal escalations.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Camille Saint-Saens, The Carnival of the Animals, '10 Voliere'.


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    1 hr and 8 mins