Save Me From My Shelf

By Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith

We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.

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Save Me From My Shelf episodes:

June 24, 2026 SMFMS Bookends 32: Picnic at Hanging Rock
The thirty-second 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 Picnic at Hanging Rock episode.
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34min
June 17, 2026 Episode 80 - Picnic at Hanging Rock
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eightieth episode, we go to a new continent for the podcast (Australia) with Joan Lindsay's 1967 horror-mystery, Picnic at Hanging Rock. We do a combination Valentine's Day, summer, and Halloween episode as we talk about various teen lusts, revolting late-Victorian food, more revolting nature, and most revolting fake Australian accents.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Royalty-Free Didgeridoo Music, courtesy of YouTube.
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1h 15min
May 20, 2026 SMFMS Bookends 31: Anne of Green Gables
The thirty-first 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 Anne of Green Gables episode.
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27min
May 13, 2026 Episode 79 - Anne of Green Gables
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventy-ninth episode, we go to P.E.I. to cover some children's lit: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908). In this episode, we cover what might be our queerest text to date, are in raptures about 'puffy' sleeves, Gilbert Blythe, and the CBC adaptation from 1985, and slip the emotional Daniel a Prozac.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: George Grant-Schaefer, 'Tales of the Red Man'.
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1h 16min
April 22, 2026 SMFMS Bookends 30: Vanity Fair
The thirtieth 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 Vanity Fair episode.
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27min
April 15, 2026 Episode 78b - Vanity Fair Part Two
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventy-eighth episode, we cover Part Two of our possibly most requested text: William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical silver fork novel, Vanity Fair (1848). We address Daniel's unhealthy obsession with the posh 'ain't' accent, both hosts' loathing of George Osborne, and hear a surprisingly amount about curries.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Beethoven, 'Overture, Op. 72', Fidelio.
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1h
April 15, 2026 Episode 78a - Vanity Fair Part One
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventy-eighth episode, we cover Part One of our possibly most requested text: William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical silver fork novel, Vanity Fair (1848). We address Daniel's unhealthy obsession with the posh 'ain't' accent, both hosts' loathing of George Osborne, and hear a surprisingly amount about curries.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Beethoven, 'Overture, Op. 72', Fidelio.
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57min
March 18, 2026 SMFMS Bookends 29: Lysistrata
The twenty-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 Lysistrata episode.
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36min
March 11, 2026 Episode 77 - Lysistrata
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventy-seventh episode and International Women's Day Special, we cover one of the randiest, bawdiest texts we've had on the show: Aristophanes's sex-strike comedy, Lysistrata (411BC). We notice a dildo discrepancy, get a surprise visit from wee Donalbain, and get a lot of help from friend of the podcast (and Ancient Greek scholar) Fabio!

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Γω στα ξένα περπατούσα
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56min
February 18, 2026 SMFMS Bookends 28: Much Ado About Nothing
The twenty-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 Much Ado About Nothing episode.
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38min

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