Prose before bros

Celebrating the unbearably chic non-fiction November, Elizabeth and Ems delve into their first non-fiction book club pick, Shon Faye’s Love In Exile. Recommended by not one, but two former guests of the podcast Ross and Georgie, will it meet their high expectations? Together they discuss love, heterosexuality, Catholic mysticism and a bunch more as they unpack what love and this book is to them. 

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Pod: @prosebeforebrospod

Ems: @brattyreads

Elizabeth: @reads.elizabeth

A belated spooky season celebration awaits as Elizabeth and Ems interview Adam, Ems’ first bookstagram friend and favourite horror fiend. Together they unpack the 8 fiendish questions and discuss uncanny literary fiction, Deafheaven, Steven King, the opioid crisis and why they hate Butter by Asako Yuzuki. 

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Adam: @chaosofcold 

Pod: @prosebeforebrospod

Ems: @brattyreads

Elizabeth: @reads.elizabeth

Returning from their musical hiatus, Ems and Elizabeth delve into the drama of this year's literary prizes. Together they discuss the prizes they love, the prizes that they miss and the prizes that have let them down. They also discuss Adam Leslie’s Lost In The Garden, Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch, 2 hour podcast episodes and how much £50,000 would change their lives. 

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Podcast - @prosebeforebros

Elizabeth - @reads.elizabeth

Ems - @brattyreads

On this week’s episode, the Prose Before Bros team step into the spotlight and transform into a music podcast to review Taylor Swift’s Life of A Showgirl. Both Elizabeth and Ems are avid swifties, but how does the album and discourse around it stack up? Fashionably late, they bring hot takes, in depth musical analysis (what else) and ultimately unpack what Taylor Swift means to them as young women. 

Listen to make us the internet’s busiest music nerds!

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Pod: @prosebeforebrospod

Ems: @brattyreads

Elizabeth: @reads.elizabeth

It’s hoa hoa hoa season at Prose Before Bros, and coinciding with its 20th Anniversary, Ems and Elizabeth delve into the misty world of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Together they return to this staple of teenage girlhood and ask: Is Charlie Swan the only good cop? Why does the film adaptation’s soundtrack slap so hard? Why is Mormonism like that? And of course, does Twilight hold up to readers in their twenties? 

Listen to turn us into 107 year old sparkly Mormon Vampires. 

Robert Pattinson hates Twilight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFA6Ycch1EM 

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Pod: @prosebeforebrospod

Elizabeth: @reads.elizabeth

Ems: @brattyreads

Elizabeth and Ems open up their studio and are joined by Elizabeth’s partner in crime, podcasting extraordinaire and 365 party girl Yasmin Mills to answer the devilish eight questions. Together, they chat about Malory Towers, Lady Jane Grey, World War II evacuation and the Bridgerton Brothers. Listen to make us literary hot girls. 

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Yasmin - @yasminl.mills

Ems - @brattyreads

Elizabeth - @reads.elizabeth

Pod - @prosebeforebrospod

For one episode and one episode only, Ems and Elizabeth talk about one hit wonders in the literary world. Whether it’s an author who has only written one book or we have only enjoyed one book by them, controversial takes ensue. Together, they chat about the discarded Nick Clegg Carly Rae Jepsen parody video, the Fratellis, the Oceangate submersible incident and not fancying Andrew Garfield. 

Listen to make us literary it girls. 

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Elizabeth - @reads.elizabeth

Ems - @brattyreads

Pod! - @prosebeforebrospod

Haters rise up. This week Elizabeth and Ems release their professional haters and discuss the things in books that really irk them and grind their bookish gears. Armed with five grievances each, they also chat about Knoops, browsing for perfume in Space NK, their writing projects, doing drugs, The Mountain Goats and ghost writers. 

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Ems - @brattyreads

Elizabeth - @reads.elizabeth

Pod - @prosebeforebrospod

On a hotly anticipated episode of Prose Before Bros, Elizabeth and Ems dissect Sally Rooney’s debut novel for bisexual awareness week. Together they chat about Joe Alwyn and the phenomenon of blonde men, Marxism, board games, Nine Inch Nails and whether all we really are is the relationships we make (one may say, the friends we made along the way). 

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Pod: instagram.com/prosebeforebrospod

Ems: instagram.com/brattyreads

Elizabeth: instagram.com/reads.elizabeth

This week, Ems and Elizabeth are joined by bookstagram royalty Ross Kelly (readsbyross) to ask him our fiendish questions about his reading habits. Together, they discuss The Kings Norton Stop Lock, Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, Meryl Streep, Rachel Berry from Glee, books about the AIDS crisis, their public beef with authors, and Atticus Finch ruining their relationship with capitalism.

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Ross: instagram.com/readsbyross and readsbyross.substack.com

Pod: instagram.com/prosebeforebrospod

Elizabeth: instagram.com/reads.elizabeth

Ems: instagram.com/brattyreads