Save Me From My Shelf

By Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-SmithComedy Arts Books

Save Me From My Shelf episodes

October 21 SMFMS Bookends 35: Carmilla
The thirty-fifth 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 Carmilla episode.
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32 min
October 14 Episode 87 - Carmilla
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-seventh episode and Halloween special, we cover the (terrible) precursor to Dracula, Sheridan LeFanu's High Gothic lesbian vampire novel, Carmilla (1872). Daniel struggles to read such a terrible book and Abby struggles to pronounce 'Karnstein'.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: John Field's 'Nocturne No. 9'.
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1 hr 12 min
September 23 SMFMS Bookends 34: The Crying of Lot 49
The thirty-fourth 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 Crying of Lot 49 episode.

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37 min
September 16 Episode 86 - The Crying of Lot 49
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-sixth episode, we cover a postmodernist masterpiece and one of the first 'anti-detective' novels, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 (1966). We become increasingly paranoid, read a truly bizarre sex scene, and discuss the benefits and detriments of Jameson's.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: 'Scroach', courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. .
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1 hr 5 min
August 26 Episode 85 - Goblin Market
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-fifth episode, we finish our month-long miniseries on short narrative poems with Christina Rossetti's frustratingly UNambiguous and yet multi-layered sexual assault poem, 'Goblin Market' (1862). THIS is truly Abby's favourite poem, Daniel learns what a Labubu is, and we both get turned on by fruit.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: 'The Goblin and the Mosquito' by Florence Price.
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40 min
August 19 Episode 84 - The Lady of Shalott
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-fourth episode, we continue our month-long miniseries on short narrative poems with Alfred Lord Tennyson's Arthurian retelling, 'The Lady of Shalott'. Abby thinks it's a banger, Daniel is generally unimpressed and concerned with toilet issues, and we get some very thinly-veiled sexual awakenings.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Wagner, Parsifal, Act I - 'Transformation Music'.

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26 min
August 12 Episode 83 - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-third episode, we continue a weekly, month-long miniseries on short narrative poems. Today we cover Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 Gothic-Romantic-philosophical epic sea yarn, 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. We get amused by a bassoon and confused by the gloss, just as Coleridge intended. Probably.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Mendelssohn, 'Hebrides Overture'.
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38 min
August 05 Episode 82 - The Rape of the Lock
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-second episode, we start a weekly, month-long miniseries on short narrative poems, beginning with Alexander Pope's 1714 mock-epic, 'The Rape of the Lock'. Daniel is determined to not have wig-face, both our hosts share childhood hair-cutting trauma, and we learn that this is where fairies with wings comes from!

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Vivaldi, Concerto in D Major 1. 'Allegro'.
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40 min
July 22 SMFMS Bookends 33: The Woman in White
The thirty-third 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 Woman in White episode.
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34 min
July 15 Episode 81 - The Woman in White
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-first episode, we cover our first (and THE first) sensation novel, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1860). Daniel gets pissed off at the narrative structure and the lack of concertinas, while Abby basks in the glow of some real bad biddies.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: 'Figaro' performed on the concertina by Daniel Jenkin-Smith
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1 hr 24 min