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31: Slaughterhouse-Five - Rob Walker Sep 01, 2021

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My guest, Rob Walker (@timidwerewolf) gets into a discussion of hope and beauty while discussing the PTSD manifesto from Kurt Vonnegut.

CW: Fat-shaming, torture, murder, war, PTSD

SUMMARY
Billy Pilgrim is an optometrist from Ilium, New York who is living with the memories of his time as a POW from World War II. This manifests as a consciousness that has become "unstuck in time," so that his brain will travel to all future and past memories at random.

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30: Ted Hughes - Prof. Emily Van Duyne Aug 25, 2021

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Sylvia Plath scholar Emily Van Duyne (@EmilyVanDuyne) is here to discuss the complex and interlinked legacies of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
CONTENT WARNINGS: suicide (obviously), physical abuse, adultery.
Normally I give a quick bullet points of what we discuss in the episode, but it's here that I have to say: we discuss everything. Legacy, outsider-ism, choice, American vs British politics, sexual politics, and criticism and the nature of art. There are more laughs than you think.

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TED HUGHES was an English poet, translator, playwright, and children's author, best known, possibly, as being the husband of Sylvia Plath at the time of her death. Often writing with deep natural symbolism, Hughes's life was inextricably linked with Plath's legacy for the 30+ years he lived on after her. His career was managed by his sister, Olwyn Hughes, and he maintained primary control over Plath's estate, publishing rights, and legacy. Hughes was named Poet Laureate of Britain in 1984 and held the office until his death in 1998.

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29: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Aug 18, 2021

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The extended episode on FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS discusses truth, fiction, and how people can break down power structures. But in this 10 minute segment, my guest Danielle Ryan (@danirat) and I talk about all the people who see the exposed power structures in the prose of white male writers and… embrace it. And become a part of it.

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ARCHIVE - A Clockwork Orange - Lucé Tomlin-Brenner Aug 17, 2021

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**This episode first aired in October 2019**
Content warnings: violence, rape, torture

We are re-posting our episode on A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in preparation for the 2021 airing of an episode of FEAR + LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson. Books of kindred spirit, FEAR + LOATHING was published roughly a decade after CLOCKWORK ORANGE appeared in 1962.
FROM THE ORIGINAL POST:
The amazing Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (@LTBComedy) got host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to read a book she's dreaded her entire life: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
SUMMARY
Alex is a teenage ne'er-do-well living at some point in the not-defined future of London. He and his marauding band of goons commit various crimes (murder, rape) until Alex is caught and sent through a re-education camp. His moral salvation depends on if you read the book or watch the movie.

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28: Pygmalion - Val Aug 11, 2021

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Our dear friend Val (@whiskeyandspite) is back for a discussion on abuse, gaslighting, and class through the lens of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION. CW for endless emotional abuse.
SUMMARY
Poverty-stricken flowerseller, Eliza Doolittle, is the subject of a bet between Henry Higgins and his friend, Colonial Pickering. Higgins, an elocution teacher, bets Pickering he can turn Doolittle into a "lady." He teaches Doolittle the finer points of manners and speaking, with heaps of gaslighting and abuse. In the end, Eliza marries the love of her life, Freddie, and with the help of Pickering, "makes something of herself."
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27: Twilight (Again!) Aug 04, 2021

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Hey attic wives and lit witches and welcome to Fuckbois of Literature, I’m Emily Edwards.

Since I found out a lot of y’all are still subscribed on our free platforms, I wanted to give you a little taste of our TWILIGHT episode. In this excerpt, Strats and I discuss the inherent grossness of Vampire stories with an adult and a youth, comparing TWILIGHT to both Buffy and Pride and Prejudice, and how we feel about flawed female teens.

If you end up loving this, I ask you to please consider becoming a Patron over at Patreon.com/fuckboisoflit. Just a dollar a month gets you this whole, hour-long episode, back episodes going to May, and all new episodes going forward.

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26: Pride and Prejudice (Again!) - Book It With Becca Jul 28, 2021

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Becca from the blog BOOK WITH WITH BECCA (@bec_here) is my guest this week to have another discussion, more nuanced on my part, about what I refer to as "the Internet's favorite book," aka, Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. As it turns out, everyone's kinda shitty in this book but it's still very nice. You know?
SUMMARY
Mr. & Mrs. Bennet have five daughters and an entailed estate. If one does not marry well, the family loses it all. While money is on the prettiest, Jane, to make a good match, feisty Elizabeth manages to pin down Mr. Darcy, who makes $10,000 a year. You know the gist.

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25: Lolita - Esmé Weijun Wang Jul 21, 2021

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If you’re a longtime listener, you know by now that I don’t pick the books we do every episode, the guest does. Mostly that’s so the onus of reading or rereading fresh for the recording session is on me; people normally choose books they love or have recently finished in order to not have to read 400 pages of Victorian Sadness again and again. And I admit, I have rarely said no to a book that someone chose to discuss.

But I almost said no to this one. I hadn’t read it since college, I didn’t get it, I was too uncomfortable. But I should’ve known that my guest wouldn’t lead me astray. You all are in for a phenomenal episode.

Esmé Weijun Wang (https://esmewang.com) is the author of the best-selling book THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS and the novel THE BORDER OF PARADISE. Follow her on Twitter @esmewang

SUMMARY

Humbert Humbert, a college professor, moves to suburban New Hampshire and rooms with widow, Charlotte Haze, and her daughter, Delores, whom she calls Lolita. Humbert becomes obsessed with the 12 year old daughter, and capitalizes on Charlotte's death to kidnap Lolita and abscond with her for years while he molests her. Humbert goes off the rails when Lolita flees to the arms of a pornographer, Clare Quilty, and then her subsequent husband.

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15: A Streetcar Named Desire - Part 2 - Marci & Ako of Colored Pages Book Club May 12, 2021

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Marci and Ako, the hosts of the PHENOMENAL podcast Colored Pages Book Club, join host Emily Edwards to discuss the intensely traumatic Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire.
This is FBOL's final FULL, PUBLIC episode. For more, subscribe for $1 at our patreon:
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In this episode we discuss:

The hidden bigotry of the "nice guy"
The progression of domestic abuse
The White Christian morality's gaze on sex work and queerness
Isolation vs public life

CONTENT WARNINGS: Rape, sexual assault, sex work, domestic violence, addiction
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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/colored-pages-book-club/id1456179363
Web: https://www.thesecoloredpages.com/book-club-podcast-episodes

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BONUS- Roald Dahl May 07, 2021

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Roald Dahl, the author of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, THE WITCHES, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and over a dozen other books for children, had a complicated past as Her Majesty's secret sexy spy, a constant philanderer, and a long and storied history of antisemitism. A short biography and introduction to the life of Roald Dahl.
Transcript available here: https://www.fuckboisoflit.com/episodes/2021/5/3/bonus-roald-dahl
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