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TW: Rape, Suicide;

It's good to be back.  And with a recording device that so far hasn't fucked us!  This season we're kicking it off with the Queen of Feminism herself, Mary Wollstonecraft!

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Alright look, we DID have a 10th author for our season finale but due to our information being readily available, we are gonna have to veto this guy for now.  HOWEVER, come listen to Jordan read to Caleb the first chapter of infamous Harry Potter fanfic "My Immortal" for now while we get some shit figured out.  See y'all in January!

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TW: Pedophilia (EXCEPT THERE'S NO EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST HE DID ANY SUCH THING BUT WE CERTAINLY DID DISCUSS IT), Suicide;

Who wants to get "Peter Pan" ruined for them?  Well jump on in and let's take a nosedive into the strangely upsetting childhood of J.M. Barrie, which leads us to the upsetting adulthood of J.M. Barrie!

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TW: Dead Kids;

Hoo boy here we go with the racism again.  Join us for our discussion on Flannery O'Connor's Souther Gothic masterpiece "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", along with her novel "The Violent Bear It Away", and the rest of her work during her ever-declining health.  How fun!

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With the need for goth girlfriends on the rise, we can bring you at least one of those things: the advent of the Southern Gothic.  While Flannery O'Connor was not the first to write in this style, she was definitely the greatest influence-- and possibly the greatest writer to contribute to-- the Southern Gothic genre.  Come listen to us discuss the beginning of her career with her novel "Wise Blood", before going on to absolutely demolish the expectations of what women "should" write.

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TW: Incest, Rape;

He's angry, he's sick of the hypocrisy, and he's not afraid to shove his middle finger in your face and tell you so.  Come listen to us discuss the man who helped light the powder keg of the Civil Rights movement and his critically-acclaimed novel "Invisible Man", Ralph Ellison!  

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Dear God in Heaven he's known as the worst poet in history and for good reason.  Between whales, bridges, and jute, the man is an unstoppable force of ass.  Not the good kind.  We're here to discuss the man, the myth, the unfortunate legend of William McGonagall!

Also, thanks again to our shitty equipment, at 0:14:17 the audio skips an entire section of William's story.  Here's what it's supposed to say: "But McGonagall did not understand that this was a rejection letter, instead focusing on the words 'Thank you', figuring it meant that the Queen wanted more.  William McGonagall would continue to practice his prose, of which he had none.  I mean 0x0 is still 0, dude.  And that very next year in July of 1878, Queen Victoria would be visiting Balmoral Castle in Scotland, a mere walking distance of 60 miles from Dundee.  Yes, William Should've probably hitched a ride or something [...]"

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come listen to this
episode (this episode
is for you)
it's about the
                  man who made
                                 beatniks sound good for
for all of 20 minutes
(20 minutes is what it waS)

ee cummings!

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TW: Child Abuse, Dead Kids;

There's not going to be a sweeter way of going around this rather than saying...  Look, this motherfucker is sad.  Come join us as we laugh off the awkwardness of something that was probably all too common: the slavery of kids not that long ago.  From the forgotten tales of thousands of children, we're lucky enough to be able to see the results from one man, the author of the longest tale ever written, Henry Darger!

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Well if there's one thing we can say about James Joyce, is that he could "smell" success coming a mile away...  It's that he was having a "gas"...  He was-- He...  Look, the man loved farts.  For the minuscule amount of his life that I'm sure he ever mentioned it, James Joyce's kink has filled up like, half the trivia section on his Wikipedia page.  Anyway we're also discussing "Ulysses" so you'll want to be here for that...

Also, at 0:12:19, the audio skips from the beginning of a sentence to the end of it.  Here's what it's supposed to say: "After his little session, Bloom goes to the maternity hospital where the newest addition to the town's population is being born."