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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The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.

Save Me From My Shelf episodes:

January 01, 2025 SMFMS Bookends 14: Little Women
The thirteenth 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 Little Women episode.
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39min
December 25, 2024 Episode 62 - Little Women
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixty-second episode and Christmas Special, we plunge through the ice into Louisa May Alcott's bildungsroman and first strong example of girls' YA fiction, Little Women (1869). We declare an ethno-feud on the Germans, figure out which March sister is the Wario, and discuss which is worse (in Alcott's universe): hitting or hitting on a minor.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Émile Waldteufel, 'The Skaters' Waltz', Op. 183 (1882)

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1h 19min
December 04, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 13: Heart of Darkness
The thirteenth 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 Heart of Darkness episode.
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30min
November 27, 2024 Episode 61 - Heart of Darkness
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixty-first episode, we finally cover the most glaring omission on the show: Joseph Conrad's 1899 pre-modernism Imperial Gothic novella, Heart of Darkness. We close the circuit on our Things Fall Apart episode from S2 and get a cool International Man of Mystery sting which can sadly never be used in another episode.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Karol Szymanowski, 'Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28', 1915.

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1h 17min
November 06, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 12: The Bloody Chamber
The twelfth 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 The Bloody Chamber episode.
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38min
October 30, 2024 Episode 60 - The Bloody Chamber
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixtieth episode and Halloween special, we examine Angela Carter's feminist novella and Bluebeard retelling (which is NOT an adult version of a fairy tale), The Bloody Chamber (1979). In this episode, Daniel expresses Carter-fatigue and we praise Carter's depiction of sex with someone gross.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Bela Bartok, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, an Opera in One Act, 1965.

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1h 15min
October 09, 2024 SMFMS Scheduling Update
For the remainder of S5, we need to release all episodes at the end of every month, rather than in the mdidle.
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1min
October 02, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 11: Don Quixote, Part Two
The eleventh 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 Don Quixote, Part Two episode.
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39min
September 25, 2024 Episode 59b - Don Quixote, Part Two
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the second part of our fifty-ninth episode, we tackle the remainder of the biggest book we've ever featured on the show: Miguel de Cervantes's Picaresque adventure, Don Quixote (1605).

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Manuel de Falla y Orquesta Nacional De Espana, 'Overture' in El Retablo De Maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show), 1957.

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1h 14min
September 18, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 10: Don Quixote, Part One
The tenth 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 Don Quixote, Part One episode.
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37min

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How many episodes does Save Me From My Shelf have?

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