F***bois of Literature Book Podcast

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11: Huck Finn - Leslie Gray Streeter May 18, 2022

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Journalist and author Leslie Gray Streeter (@LeslieStreeter) is here to discuss all the ramifications of Mark Twain's most celebrated classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. From how to present the audio book (don't, maybe?), to who is the sociopath of the novel (not Huck!), we get into it, and discuss how our relationship to this novel has changed as we grew older, and politics changed.

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The Baltimore Banner: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/

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Buy her book BLACK WIDOW: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/leslie-gray-streeter/black-widow/9780316490726/

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10: The Glass Menagerie - Katharine LaRonde May 11, 2022

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Writer and comedian Katharine LaRonde (@KatLaRonde) graces us with her presence to discuss our "homegirl" Laura in Tennessee Williams's first and most famous play, THE GLASS MENAGERIE.

SUMMARY

Amanda is a struggling single mother to two children in their 20s– Tom, who works at a shoe factory, and Laura, who is self conscious about a slight physical deformity. Amanda pressures Tom to bring a "gentleman caller" around for Laura, to get her daughter married, but Jim is a disappointment to the whole family.

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9: Endgame - Jody DiPerna May 04, 2022

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This week, journalist and co-founder of the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Jody DiPerna (@JodyDiPerna) is here to discuss my favorite play by one of my favorite writers, ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett.

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SUMMARY:

We are in a singular room with four characters: Hamm, who is blind and in a wheeled chair; Clov, his servant who cannot sit down; Nagg, a man in an ash bin and Hamm's father; and Nell, Nagg's wife who is also in a trash bin. They discuss that there is no other life on earth beyond the room. At some point, Nell dies. That's it. That's the whole play.

For an article on Samuel Beckett's work with the French Résistance, read this: https://forward.com/culture/144905/samuel-becketts-letters-reveal-roots-of-resistance/

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8: The Westing Game - Taverlee Jaye Apr 27, 2022

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We're here to ruin one of Emily's childhood books, Ellen Raskin's THE WESTING GAME. As it turns out, it's pretty racist, ableist, and glorifies the owner of a company town. Woo hoo?

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Summary:

Sixteen "heirs" are tricked into moving to a new housing development on Lake Michigan, overlooking the famous Samuel Westing house. After Samuel Westing dies, the residents of the complex are summoned to Westing's house to hear the reading of the will– where they are all now in competition to be the sole heirs to Westing's $200million fortune.

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7: Our Town - AJ Feuerman Apr 20, 2022

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Well, Team Attic Wife, we're back with another dip into the world of grease paint and footlights, only SO MINIMALIST ALL YOU GET IS SPALDING GREY AND A GODDAMN LADDER. It's time for Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN, the most widely read play in all of American history, which your host managed to avoid reading until she was 36 years old. Don't worry, I did a google of "Thornton Wilder antisemite" and we discuss the results in this episode.

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6: Iron Man - Andy Michaels Apr 13, 2022

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Our dear friend Andy Michaels (@StopThatAndy) is here to discuss the world's mot famous genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist, Tony Stark, AKA, Iron Man. How did it take us this long to get to the archetypal fuckboi of Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Tony Stark has a tendency to fuck around *and* find out.

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5: The Wizard of Oz- Abby, @ClapIfYouLikeMe Apr 06, 2022

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My friend Abby– best known to you all on twitter as @ClapIfYouLikeMe– is here to discuss monarchical aspirations, poverty in settler times, and buying orphans. It's L. Frank Baum's THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ!

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4: The Giver - Lillah Lawson Mar 24, 2022

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Author Lillah Lawson (@lillahlawson) is here to discuss a slightly different maniacal dystopia than THE CRUCIBLE– it's Lois Lowery's early 1990s YA classic, THE GIVER. What does it mean to be the only person in your world with emotions? What does it do to a tween when he realizes everyone around him lies?

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3: The Secret Garden - John Dellaporta Mar 16, 2022

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Actor John Dellaporta (@JohnDellaporta) joins me this week to discuss the Christian Scientist manifesto THE SECRET GARDEN. One guess as to how your atheist, Advil-obsessed, and childfree host liked the text.

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2: Julius Caesar + Take Her Down - Lauren Emily Whalen Mar 08, 2022

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PRE-ORDER TAKE HER DOWN BY LAUREN EMILY WHALEN, RELEASING ON THE IDES OF MARCH:

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Lauren joins us once again to discuss the source text of her new novel: Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR. Not just a history, but more of a Law & Order "ripped from the headlines" dramatization, the play discusses motivations, hate, regret, and thinking ahead towards your own legacy.

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