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Author and editor Jason Diamond (@ImJasonDiamond) joins us to discuss one of the most strikingly modern books of the 1920s, set in the 1870s: Edith Wharton's THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. Deserving of a modern critique on the blissful happiness and absolute despair of New York's Gilded Age, we discuss ostentatious wealth, literary anti-Semitism, and just how badly we miss going to parties. Buy Jason's books:  The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs Searching for John Hughes Follow FBOL: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Self-proclaimed comic book geek Andy Michaels (@StopThatAndy/@at0micgh0st) is here to discuss one of the more formative graphic novels of our shared teen/twenties years: SCOTT PILGRIM by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Twenty-three year old Scott has to battle Manic Pixie Dream Girl Ramona's seven evil exes in order to win her partnership– but he hasn't quite told his seventeen year old girlfriend, Knives Chau, that he's fighting for another girl's love. Exes, bands, and surprisingly racist caricatures come fighting in this poppy graphic novel series. Check out Andy's new music debut here: https://linktr.ee/atomicghost Find FBOL! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

[CW] : SEXUAL ASSAULT, ABLEISM, SEXISM, HOMOPHOBIA  D.H. Lawrence's much-maligned classic LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER gets a much needed FBOL critique with Aislene and Gracie of The Feminist Critique! The book was notorious for being the subject of a British obscenity trial, on the grounds of the language used in the book. But far and away, the most obscene aspects of Lady Chatterley and Mr. Mellors? Flowers where flowers shouldn't go. Keep in contact with THE FEMINIST CRITIQUE on their twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/feministcritique or on Twitter at @SouthofGrace @AisleneS and @FeministCrit Find FBOL  • on Patreon at www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit • on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit • on Instagram at www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit • online at www.fuckboisoflit.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is known more now as the source material for Andrew Lloyd Webber's coke-fueled nightmare of a stage show CATS and its subsequent and somehow scarier film released to cinemas in late 2019 starring an awful lot of people who should've known better. Its author, T.S. Eliot, was one of the most famous poets to emerge from the era of modernism, and carries with him many of the hallmarks of the literary movement, including but not limited to: virulent anti-semitism, a fascist leaning, and really effed up relationships to women.  LINK TO FULL TEXT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pHU987DUT4UOZqYPDwkZz_8g7tb_hHp91aTkCFqCelE/edit?usp=sharing --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

My favorite guest Danielle Ryan (@DaniRat) is here to talk all about Nikolai Gogol’s novella, CHRISTMAS EVE. While other stories revolve around the sweet baby Jesus asleep in his manger or maybe a tree, CHRISTMAS EVE acknowledges the existence of the Church but is mostly about how the entire city of Dykanka is here to fuck with the Devil. Read the full text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Night_of_Christmas_Eve   Follow FBOL on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit   SUMMARY (from Wikipedia) The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints religious art in the church.

Val (@WhiskeyAndSpite) from our episode on CALL ME BY YOUR NAME was kind enough to sit with me the day before the 2020 election, talk me off a ledge, and discuss 1979's fucked up classic NOTHING LASTS FOREVER, which you might know better as 1988's action movie classic DIE HARD. It's the only book-to-screen adaptation where EVERYTHING is different and EVERYTHING is the same. Follow FBOL on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Follow FBOL on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY Joe Leland, a retired police detective, P.I., and terrorism expert, is visiting his daughter Steffie at her high-powered holiday Christmas party in Los Angeles, that eventually becomes a hostage situation for a group of sociopathic Nazi terrorists.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Liv Albert of the phenomenal podcast LET'S TALK ABOUT MYTHS, BABY is here to discuss her new book, as well as a perennial favorite of ours: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde. It's our first Wilde podcast in two years!  Pre-order Liv's new book here: https://www.mythsbaby.com/book Follow Liv @MythsBaby or @LivyRants Follow FBOL @FuckboisofLit or @MsEmilyEdwards About our Sponsor BIRMINGHAM-BASED female and non-bianry writer’s group; Script Sirens have created an exciting new project. Script Sirens Presents...Siren Screams is a six part horror series consisting of six 10 - 20 minute audio plays available to listen to on Spotify, Acast Google Podcast and more. Each episode is a standalone story with vibrant characters, immersive sound effects and unforgettable vocal performances from a range of West Midlands based Actors. Listen now: Spotify https://spoti.fi/2ImTe7b Acast https://bit.ly/3f3yUUP Apple https://apple.co/3kHpXSm Google https://bit.ly/3pzhvYZ iHeratRadio ihr.fm/33itJvs Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube  - @scriptsirens SUMMARY Painter Basil Hallward has a secret– he's met his muse, in a 17 year old boy named Dorian Gray. Unable to hide his secret obsession, he introduces Dorian to his friend, Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry, known to be a cad and leading rather the extravagent life, delights in teasing the boy and introducing him to a path off the straight and narrow. As Dorian toys more with habits and proclivities not endorsed by Victorian society, the portrait of himself painted by Basil begins to physically alter. After approximately three murders, Dorian finally meets his downfall after several decades. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Friends! This week's show features the phenomenal podcasters behind the Avant Bard podcast (@AvantBardPod), Megan and Marquez! This week, we discuss sexy blood orgies, the good servants, and how we thought Twitter would be the politician truth teller. Alas. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to Avant Bard today! https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/avant-bard/id1519249531 LOVE FBOL? Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY At the opening of the play, Gloucester announces to the room that his favorite kid is a bastard. It all gets worse from there when King Lear declares his daughters should beg for his benevolence by having an adoration competition to see who inherits his kingdom while he goes off into a Jimmy Buffett style retirement of drinking and carousing. The two oldest, Goneril and Regan, get into shenanigans while Cordelia just gets married off to the King of France. Literally everyone dies. Spoiler alert. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

[CONTENT WARNING: Torture and sexual assault.] Actor and audiobook narrator Heath Miller (Twitter: @VeryHeathMiller, Audible books here) is here to talk about Neal Gaiman’s seminal graphic novel series, THE SANDMAN. Emily confesses she finds it super hard to read “through” graphic novels, Heath admits that he’d really urge people to start after the first book in the series during which people gouge out their own eyes. Follow FBOL on Social Media! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit Read the summary of the series on Neil Gaiman’s website here --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

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.  Follow FBOL on: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit  Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit  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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

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 Media Twitter: @FuckboisOfLit Instagram: @FuckboisOfLit Be a patron: www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY Approximately 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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

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. Follow FBOL on Social Media! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

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? Read the article here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/wishbone-oral-history/   Follow FBOL on Social Media! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

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.   Follow FBOL on Social Media! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit  Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit  Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit   Read LADY SUSAN for free: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/946/946-h/946-h.htm   SUMMARY:

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. Love Fuckbois of Lit? Follow us on Instagram and Twitter! twitter.com/fuckboisoflit  instagram.com/fuckboisoflit  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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message