F***bois of Literature Book Podcast

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1: The Fault In Our Stars - Malavika Praseed of Your Favorite Book Mar 02, 2022

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We're here to get into The Book About Kids With Cancer– THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. We touch on Lurleen McDaniel and what it feels like to read about kids, death, love, and loss as an adult. Malavika Praseed of @YFBpodcast (who works in oncology) and I discuss all the faults of the navigational stars in this most-famous novel by John Green.

We reference this review of TFIOS from a kid who survived cancer here: https://disabilityinkidlit.com/2015/07/17/review-the-fault-in-our-stars-by-john-green/

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47: The Nutcracker - Lauren Emily Whalen Dec 22, 2021

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CW: Injury, menstruation, some intimated underage sex, it’s weird.

Is THE NUTCRACKER a ballet? Yes. Is it also a novella by ETA Hoffmann? Yes. It’s a Christmas miracle that Lauren Emily Whalen (@laurenemilywri, laurenemilywrites.com) is here to discuss all the different ways we can have a sexual awakening to small kitchen appliances!

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Link to ETA Hoffmann texts: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2008

Link to The Hard Nut Part 1 // Part 2

Link to Boston Ballet Trepak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgyliXHF9j8 // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-qVbWl5TYg

Trailer of the Dutch National Ballet Nutcracker: https://youtu.be/V3RoTxIuhvU

Trepak from So You Think You Can Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo4tyxXymgc

Russian/Cossak Dancing: https://youtu.be/O7MYUP_rGWE

More Trepak/Hopak/Gopak dancing: https://youtu.be/WBrmIKf_PEM

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46: Creepy Christmas Dec 15, 2021

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CW: Lots of Child Abuse

While American Christmas is here to tell you that scampering elves are magical and not malicious, cultures around the globe have Winter Solstice traditions that are a bit more fitting for the time of year when daylight hours are near non-existent and the darkness seems never ending. These traditions often involve violence and goats and sex and fertility and all sorts of stuff that gets right to the heart of the emotionally charged, shortened days of winter: Darkness is scary, and sometimes, all we can do is wait it out. And hope that it comes with cake.

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45: The Hogfather - Sara and Lilly of Fiction Fans Dec 08, 2021

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CW: None? I think? Maybe hunting humans for sport.

Sara and Lilly of Fiction Fans (@fictionfanspod) are here to be my guide into Terry Pratchett's Discworld, with THE HOGFATHER. We talk about death and murder and Christmas and darkness and it is so lovely!

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44: Among The Thugs - Jonathan Ade Dec 01, 2021

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CW: Deep violence, sexual violence, domestic violence, crowds + mobs, police violence, racism, body-shaming, self harm

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Our friend Jonathan Ade (@JonoKino) from our previous episodes on FRANNY & ZOOEY and LES MISERABLES is here to discuss a non-fiction novel of violence and tribalism and masculinity: AMONG THE THUGS by Bill Buford.

SUMMARY:

An American in England, Bill Buford witnesses a train full of soccer hooligans erupt in violence. This leads him down an 8 year research project of discovering the root of violent hooliganism, as he tests his theories of what causes mass violence and crowd behavior.

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43: John Cheever - Andrew Rostan Nov 24, 2021

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CW: Substance abuse, conversion therapy, mid-century queerness, incest

John Cheever is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who is the master of the American short story. My guest, Andrew Rostan (@AndrewRostan) and I fully believe Cheever should be taught more in American schools, especially through the lens of the evolution of queer writers.

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Form of A Question

An Elegy for Amelia Johnson

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42: William Faulkner - Dr. Daniel Kasper Nov 17, 2021

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CW: Transgender Identities, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide & Self-Harm, Slavery

William Faulkner is part of the Big American Triad of writers: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. Why is that? Especially when he never considered America past the lines of the fictional Yoknapatawpha. Dr. Daniel Kasper, professor at UT Arlington, discusses the transitive definition of whiteness, the inherit nature of WASPishness, plus Quinten Compson and the sex no one is having.

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Find Dr. Kasper's work here:

Various

Shirley Jackson: A Companion

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41: The Crucible - Lillah Lawson Nov 10, 2021

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CW: Abuse, murder, capital punishment, pregnancy and infant loss

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Author and history student Lillah Lawson (@LillahLawson, linktree) is here to discuss Arthur Miller's 1953 play about communism and HUAAC, THE CRUCIBLE. Based on the real events of 1692, Miller adjusted the facts of history to fit his narrative and create one of the more interesting commodifications of American hysteria in art.

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40: Ready Player One - Thom Dunn Nov 03, 2021

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CW: GamerGate, Jordan Petersen/Toxic Atheism, Fatphobia, Racism, Toxic Masculinity, Neurodivergence

They had time to unpack all of it, but they didn't. Today, guest Thom Dunn (@ThomDunn, https://linktr.ee/thomdunn) discusses Ernest Cline's READY PLAYER ONE, which has helped define Geek culture and absolutely for the worse. With no desire to dissect the world he's creating and asking the ultimate "why?", RPO takes a great storyline about governments, tech, and surveillance and does nothing with it.

Read more about Wendy Carlos: http://www.wendycarlos.com/

SUMMARY

Wade, codename Parzifal, lives in the OASIS, an immersive VR world, trying to solve puzzles to inherit the OASIS creator's fortune. His two best friends, Aiche and Art3mis, help him on his quest to defeat the militaristic IOI organization's quest to destroy the virtual world .

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39: The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. - Kerri Kearse Oct 27, 2021

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CW: Emotional abuse, Explicit sexual language, Antisemitism, Racism

We've had multiple requests to do this book, and I was so excited Kerri Kearse (@_iamlivingcolor) offered to cover it with us! The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. is a 2013 novel by Adelle Waldman that covers the dating life of Nathaniel Piven in earl 2000s New York City. TL; DL: he's awful!

SUMMARY

Nate attends a party at his ex-girlfriend Elisa's apartment and meets Hannah. He and Hannah date and delve into a relationship of envy, false expectations, and status rivalries. Also, he's a sexist jerk.

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