Save Me From My Shelf

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.

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'.

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.We are also happy to promote our fan's Etsy shop: VintageriebyJJ.com!

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. .

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.

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'.