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38: The Talented Mr. Ripley - Danny Bowes Oct 20, 2021

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Link to a review of a biography of Patricia Highsmith: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/highsmith-was-a-troll-on-richard-bradfords-devils-lusts-and-strange-desires/

As it turns out, Patricia Highsmith was another one of those common birds, a midcentury writer of the antisemite variety, whose advanced-level bigotries really don’t come come up in the same breath as the praises heaped upon her, and they should. She was shitty. But THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY is a fantastic novel, colored by Highsmith's own hatreds, and her ultimate goals.

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SUMMARY

Tom Ripley is hounded by a rich Richard Greenleaf Sr. to go to Italy and retrieve his son, Dickie Greenleaf, and bring him back to America for his mother's impending death. Once Tom finds Dickie, he murders the heir and takes on his identity, while avoiding capture in post-WWII Italy.

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37: Ethan Frome - Taverlee Jaye Oct 13, 2021

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CW: Suicide, depression, age-inappropriate reatlionships

ETHAN FROME is a weird-ass book. It’s shorter than JUDE THE OBSCURE, so that’s very nice. It’s nominally less bleak, but that’s just because it doesn’t involve child murderers. But it is bleak, it is creepy, it is foreboding and as we’ll discuss in the episode, we feel justified including it in our Spooky Season programming.

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BONUS - Charlie + The Chocolate Factory Oct 11, 2021

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CONTENT WARNING: RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, GENOCIDE, RACISM

I did an entire series for Patreon on Roald Dahl. The final installment was an episode on CHARLIE + THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, which feels prescient to the discussion of the upcoming movie starring Timothee Chalamet. My patrons generously gave permission to make the audio public. Read along with the transcript here.

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36: Michelle Remembers - Emmet Cameron of Believe Me Now Oct 06, 2021

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It's time to do the Satanic Panic!

What I thought was a uniquely American Christian thing turns out to have some gnarly roots in Canada. Emmet joins me in a multi-part series to discuss MICHELLE REMEMBERS: the threat of colonialism, the trauma of miscarriages, and the lurking specter of creepy Catholic psychologists.

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Fuck Around + Find Out - Ratchet Book Club Oct 01, 2021

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Just as I say in the intro, I chatted with Derik of Ratchet Book Club just for fun. If you're looking for a way to hang out with some people, this is a fun episode of 20 questions.

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35: The World According to Garp - Malavika Praseed of YOUR FAVORITE BOOK Sep 29, 2021

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CW: Rape, self-mutilation, adultery, racism, transphobia

This week, Malavika joins us to discuss some 1970s wackiness with John Irving's most famous novel, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. It's a book about feminism. Sort of.

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Summary

Jenny Fields is the daughter of a well-to-do New England family who wants to become a mother, but never a wife. After becoming a nurse during WWII, she rapes a dying man and gives birth to a son, whom she names after the man who fathered him– Technical Sergeant Garp. T.S. Garp is raised at an all-boys boarding school my his controlling mother, becomes a champion wrestler, marries the coach's daughter, Helen, and goes on to become a writer, in the footsteps of his mother, who penned a best-selling feminist treatise. Garp's sexual affairs and impolitic demeanor leads to the early demise of several characters.

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34: Love's Labour's Lost - Lauren Emily Whalen Sep 22, 2021

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Lauren Emily Whalen (@LaurenEmilyWri) joins us this week to discuss the Shakespearean sex farce LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. Everyone loves a strong, saucy lady PLUS at least two scenes of masks! What's not to love about this play?

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Two Winters (physical copies): https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781636790190

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33: The X-Men: Wolverine - Andy Michaels Sep 15, 2021

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We’ve long maintained that Graphic Novels and comics **are** literature, so it should come as no surprise that we’re discussing this guy today. He’s one of the most successful ONSCREEN comic book translations we’ve ever seen. He has everything-- pathos, motive, historical context, and pecs that just won’t quit. What else could we ask for?

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Listen to the whole episode on Patreon: Patreon.com/fuckboisoflitClick for our original episode on Cyclops & Professor X

Here's a link to a video of a Wolverine (actual weasel) scritching his butt on some cinnamon, because why not. https://fb.watch/80EDmcZlob/

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ARCHIVE - The X-Men: Cyclops + Prof. X - Andy Michaels, Thom Dunn Sep 13, 2021

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From the archive: Technically one of our first episodes EVER, Andy Michaels (@StopThatAndy/@AtomicGhost85) and Thom Dunn (@thomdunn) joined us to discuss the various Fuckbois of Graphic Novels in the classic series THE X-MEN.
Andy will be back this week to discuss Wolverine, and Thom will be back later this season to discuss READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline.
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32: Tender is the Night - David Avallone Sep 08, 2021

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CW: sexual assault, incest, trauma, abusive relationships, homophobia
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If you hate the modernists as much as I do, you'll want to click away. But don't! This is one of the first books in which we can watch a real-life fuckboi of literature grapple with the way he has hurt and continues to hurt the people in his life. WIth the glitz, glamour, and shine of Hollywood and the French Riviera, Dick Diver– the stand-in for F. Scott Fitzgerald– comes to terms with the way he hurts himself and others. A brilliant read and better conversation with David Avallone.Check out David's work at davidavallonefreelance.com or follow on Twitter at @DAvallone
Link to the ¡Hola Papí! column by JP Brammer on being ghosted: https://holapapi.substack.com/p/i-got-ghosted-big-time

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