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33: Beowulf - Kevin Sonney Nov 11, 2020

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Kevin Sonney (@ksonney) of Productivity Alchemy (productivityalchemy.com) is here to discuss Maria Dahvana Headley's new translation of BEOWULF (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374110031). Beo gets a "bro!" update that somehow manages to make him the most noble of the literary fuckbois we've discussed to date.

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SUMMARY (From Wikipedia)

The story is set in Scandinavia in the 6th century. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland (Götaland in modern Sweden) and becomes king of the Geats. Fifty years later, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is mortally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower on a headland in his memory.

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32: Les Misérables - Jonathan Ade Nov 04, 2020

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Our guest from our FRANNY & ZOOEY episode, Jonathan Ade (@jonathanade on Twitter and @JonoKino on Instagram) is here to discuss another deeply spiritual and revolutionary work Les Misérables. Yes, we discuss the musical, our own religious pasts, and all sorts of wonderful stuff.

Follow Fuckbois of Lit on Social MediaTwitter: @FuckboisOfLitInstagram: @FuckboisOfLitBe a patron: www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflitSUMMARYApproximately 40 years after the French Revolution, France is still in shambles. A prisoner named Jean Valjean becomes the adoptive guardian of a street urchin named Cosette, whose mother, Fantine, died while working off her debts to the family with whom she left her baby, a hotelier named Thenardier. Jean Valjean is relentlessly hunted by a police officer named Javert. When Cosette ages, a man named Marius falls achingly and pathetically in love with her, and risks his own fortune to follow his political and romantic heart.

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31: American Horror: From Poe to Grady Hendrix Oct 29, 2020

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Emily and Corinne from Hybrid Pub Scout (@hybridpubscout) are here to discuss all sorts of spooky scary things about American horror. From modern day workplace creeps to what to do if you're so racist you die, we're feeling the cold hand of darkness reach through the veil*

* okay, we just have a fun chat about ghosts and stuff.
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30: Wishbone - Cat Cardenas Oct 14, 2020

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Co-author of the wildly viral article on the 25th anniversary of PBS's WISHBONE series, Cat Cardenas (@catrcardenas) stops by to talk about Texas, Diversity, and irresistibly cute dogs. What else is there?

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29: Lady Susan - Bethany Brookshire Oct 07, 2020

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Our guest from our FRANKENSTEIN episode, Bethany Brookshire (@beebrookshire) is back to discuss a slightly less Halloweeny tale: Jane Austen's LADY SUSAN. Another one for our absolute pantheon of Lady Fuckbois, LADY SUSAN and the recent film adaptation called LOVE & FRIENDSHIP starring Kate Beckinsale gives us something we've always wanted: a slightly villainous lady who gets punished in proportion to her crimes.

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An epistolary novel that young Jane Austen did not see published in her lifetime, LADY SUSAN follows the love and power trials of one Lady Susan, a recently widowed woman of few means who must rely on her wit and cunning to keep her in the status she so richly deserves. While plying her trade on wealthy young men and her own daughter, her sister-in-law does what she can to protect her own family's honor.

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28: Jurassic Park - Samantha Endres Sep 30, 2020

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Samantha Endres, content creator for Jurassic Outpost (@SamanthaJo28/ @JurassicOutpost) is here to discuss the most classic sci-fi nightmare of our Millennial childhoods: JURASSIC PARK. The horror of cloning and genetic engineering was the specter of the 1990s, only exacerbated by huge, headline-grabbing innovations that are reflected in the hellscape of 2020.

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SUMMARY
Dr. Alan Grant is a paleontologist who specializes in surmising animal behavior from their fossils. One day, he receives a summons from his largest benefactor, John Hammond, to take a trip to a mysterious island off the coast of Costa Rica. With his scientific partner, Dr. Ellie Sattler, he joined on the trip by mathematician Ian Malcolm, attorney Donald Gennaro, and Hammond's two grandchildren, Tim and Lex, to tour a well-staffed but under-secured zoo of cloned dinosaurs. Almost everyone gets eaten, including people who weren't in the movie.

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27: A Midsummer Night's Dream - A.J. Feuerman Sep 23, 2020

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Publicist and all-around fangirl of things, A.J. Feuerman (@AJFeuerman) is here to discuss her longstanding love for the weird Shakespearean sex farce, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. This bonkers play is not-so-secretly about women's choices and agency, with a nice dash of romance and sisterly bonds. It's so, so much more than Puck.

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In ancient Athens, two men and two women are in a battle of love. Hermia is in love with Lysander, but her father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius was partnered with Hermia's best friend, Helena, until Egeus offered him a different deal. Local leader Theseus, on the eve of his own wedding to the Amazon warrior Hippolyta, declares Hermia to do as her father wishes, so Hermia and Lysander escape to the woods, to travel to his grandmother's house to get married. Meanwhile, faerie king Oberon wants to play a trick on his wife, Titania, so he orders his minion Puck to drug her to make her fall in love with the first thing she sees– hopefully the monstrous Bottom, a weaver who has been turned into a donkey. In addition to drugging Titania, Puck messes up and drugs Lysander and Demetrius in succession, making them both fall in love with Helena, leaving Hermia alone and confused. The play resolves in typical Shakespearean comedy fashion– with weddings. But who will be wedded to whom?

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26: Ivanhoe - A.R. Vishny Sep 16, 2020

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Writer A.R. Vishny (@AR_Vishny) is here to discuss the 1819 swashbuckling epic IVANHOE by Sir Walter Scott. This swashbuckling epic has everything: damsels in distress, a couple hundred pages discussing a knight's tournament, a swineherd named Gurth, and just piles and piles of anti-Semitism.

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It's the late 1100s and the Crusades are over. The Templars are back in England and looking to rumble. Wilfred of Ivanhoe is back from Jerusalem hoping to marry the beautiful Rowena. Wilfred's dad, Cedric, isn't keen on their pairing. Meanwhile, Prince John, still in charge while Richard the Lionheart is MIA, holds a tournament where the beautiful Jewish woman, Rebecca, is making her debut on the arm of her father Isaac, who is currently in John's favor for lending the Prince money. After the tournament, Rowena, a comatose Ivanhoe, Isaac, and Rebecca are kidnapped by a pack of Templars– Bois-Guilbert and deBracy, who hope to make the women their wives or concubines. King Richard, Ivanhoe, and Robin Hood (!!!) band together to save the hostages and, eventually, Rebecca from being burned at the stake for being a witch. It's chaos.

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13: Sideways - Delondra Mesa Sep 09, 2020

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Screenwriter Delondra Mesa (Black Summer, Step Up: High Water, on Twitter at @DelondraMesa) is here to talk about wine, whiteness, and wealth in Rex Pickett's 2004 best-seller, SIDEWAYS.

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Jack is getting married and his best friend and best man, Miles, is taking him for a week-long bachelor trip to the Santa Ynez Valley for some wine-tasting and relaxing. Miles, a failing writer, and Jack, a trust-fund womanizer, take to the small and sleepy area like a tornado, with Jack desirous to have as many flings as he can before he walks down the aisle. Two unlucky women, Maya and Terra, get caught up in their shenanigans.

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24: Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency - Bea Koch Sep 02, 2020

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Bea Koch's new book, MAD & BAD: REAL HEROINES OF THE REGENCY is the subject of this week's episode! Bea owns The Ripped Bodice bookstore with her sister here in Los Angeles, and it's the only romance-exclusive bookstore on the West Coast.

You can order a signed copy of Bea's book directly from her bookstore here, while supplies last: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/product/mad-and-bad-real-heroines-regency-bea-koch-signedTowards the end of the show, I mention a BBC documentary series about the inter-relationship between Africa & Britain. It's called AFRICA & BRITAIN: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct5bdh Become a Patron: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflitFollow FBOL on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflitFollow FBOL on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit

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