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Save Me From My Shelf

Save Me From My Shelf

By: Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith
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 We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.

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Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • SMFMS Bookends 19: Ulysses

    SMFMS Bookends 19: Ulysses
    May 28 2025
    The ninteenth 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 Ulysses episode.

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    36 mins
  • Episode 67b - Ulysses, Part Two

    Episode 67b - Ulysses, Part Two
    May 21 2025

    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-seventh episode, we examine the second half of James Joyce's 800-page inscruitable Modernist Masterpiece, Ulysses. Here we recap the 'Nausicaa' chapter, which got the book banned in the first place, and speculate on if such an achievement in literature angered the gods.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: 'The Rocky Road to Dublin'.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Episode 67a - Ulysses, Part One

    Episode 67a - Ulysses, Part One
    May 7 2025

    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-seventh episode, we examine the first half of James Joyce's 800-page inscruitable Modernist Masterpiece, Ulysses. We make lots of connections to the Odyssey and wonder if Joyce--the filthy bugger--might have put his penis (or something worse, given his pecadillos) in a popcorn tub at Dublin's first cinema.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: 'The Rocky Road to Dublin'.

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    57 mins
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