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:

October 22, 2025 SMFMS Bookends 24: Dante's Inferno
The twenty-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 Dante's Inferno episode.
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31min
October 15, 2025 Episode 72 - Dante's Inferno (and rest of the Divine Comedy)
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventy-second episode, we invite Friend of the Podcast (and Abby's best friend/medieval historian) Justine back to the show to school us on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. We focus primarily on the 'Inferno' section and get really caught up on Dante being a civil engineering girlie.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Motet, 'Ypocrite / Velut stelle / Et gaudebit' (14th century)
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1h 23min
September 24, 2025 SMFMS Bookends 23: Catcher in the Rye
The twenty-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 Catcher in the Rye episode.
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29min
September 17, 2025 Episode 71 - The Catcher in the Rye
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventy-first episode, we look at a controversial text of teenage rebellion and grief-trauma that has attracted a LOT of weird loners over the years: J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951). In this episode, Daniel takes a big L over David Copperfield, we have Buckfast at Tiffany's, spend a long time discussing Howard Hughes's design of the perfect bra, and realise that this should have been our Christmas episode.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Larry Wagner, 'Autopsy on Schubert' (1937).
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1h 15min
August 20, 2025 SMFMS Bookends 22: Fahrenheit 451
The twenty-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 Fahrenheit 451 episode.
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36min
August 13, 2025 Episode 70 - Fahrenheit 451
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventieth episode, Ray Bradbury's literary-based dystopia, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), we get one step closer to EGOT-ing, see more of Abby's French-Canadian Vermonter roots, process Daniel's early cinema trauma, and discuss some scholastic terms: fridging, Bowlderisation, and Futurismo.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Tchaikovsky, 'Valse Sentimental' by Clara Rockmore on theramin.
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1h 12min
July 23, 2025 SMFMS Bookends 21: Fanny Hill
The twenty-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 Fanny Hill episode.
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33min
July 16, 2025 Episode 69 - Fanny Hill
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-ninth episode (nice) we recap the first (?) known pornographic work to use the novel as its form: John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748). We see a weaponised Measuringworth and learn the joys of giant maypoles, turtlebilling, and plenipontentary instruments.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: John Gay, 'Overture' in The Beggar's Opera (1728).
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1h 12min
June 25, 2025 SMFMS Bookends 20: A Streetcar Named Desire
The twentieth 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 Streetcar episode.
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29min
June 18, 2025 Episode 68 - A Streetcar Named Desire
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-eighth episode, we recap Tennessee Williams's most famous work, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). Abby stresses out after some massive audio equipment failure and Daniel reveals himself to be both the podcast's Brando AND a thriving gay man.

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Episode Theme: Daniel Jenkin-Smith, 'Trolley Problem'.
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1h 12min

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