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:

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
September 11, 2024 Episode 59a - Don Quixote, Part One
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the first part of our fifty-ninth episode, we tackle the first half of the biggest book we've ever featured on the show: Miguel de Cervantes's Picaresque adventure, Don Quixote (1605).We look at its status as potential 'first novel', one of the most influential works of all time (from Shakespeare to Dumas to Forrest Gump), and debate which of the two hosts is the Quixote and which one is the Sancho Panza.

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 5min
August 21, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 9: To Kill a Mockingbird
The 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 To Kill A Mockingbird episode.
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37min
August 14, 2024 Episode 58 - To Kill a Mockingbird
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-eighth episode, we once again cross the Atlantic for Harper Lee's 1960 novel of racial injustice, To Kill A Mockingbird. We get some long-overdue Cornish slander, delve into the American legalistic mindset, and mutter a lot about grits and yams.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Daniel Jenkin-Smith on keyboard, 'Mockingbird Lullaby'.
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1h 18min

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