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Allison Epstein (@rapscallison) joins us to talk about an absolutely bananas Jacobean-era English play, THE DUCHESS OF MALFI. We opine about witches vs. werewolves, court assassins, and the Roman Catholic Church. You can't miss it! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Leslie Gray Streeter (@LeslieStreeter, https://lesliegraystreeter.com/) joins host Emily Edwards to discuss that most prevalent of all YA novels, THE OUTSIDERS by S.E. Hinton. What does it mean to be alone? How does white privilege work in a world without people of color? How does being an "outsider" work where everyone's virtually the same? Pre-order Leslie's book BLACK WIDOW here: https://bookshop.org/shop/fuckboisoflit --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Our guest this week is Michelle Athy (@SunflowerRei), who you may remember from last season's episode on TUCK EVERLASTING! She joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss contemporary historical romance, vintage historical romance, Courtney Milan's book THE COUNTESS CONSPIRACY, and the drama amongst the Romance Writers of America. There's a lot to discuss!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

[CW: Rape, assault, gas-lighting, consent, colonialism, murder] Samantha Puc (@theverbalthing) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to BREAK HER BRAIN around the idea of reliable narration, colonialism as disruption, and the veil of choice in regards to Shakespeare's final play, THE TEMPEST. As it turns out? It ain't about playwriting, folks. THE TEMPEST is a blatantly anti-monarch, anti-colonialism, anti-patriarchy play that was Shakespeare's "curtain call" from London Society and playwriting. What can we glean from his text that'll tell us how he really felt about Queen Elizabeth and English society?  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Rachel Vorona Cote joins host Emily Edwards to talk about her upcoming book TOO MUCH: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. A deeply moving combination of memoir and literary research, this book will leave you as breathless as a cinched corset. Rachel and I discuss the concept of "muchness," how we relate to Victorian mores and heroines, and how we can move past the Victorian expectations of race, sexuality, and gender. Pre-order TOO MUCH today: https://www.grandcentralpublishing.com/titles/rachel-vorona-cote/too-much/9781538729700/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Playwright and author Claire Willett (@ClaireWillett) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss one of the English language's most popular books– Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA. Since its first publication in 1938, REBECCA has never gone out of print, proving Maxim de Winter, the Second Mrs. de Winter, Mrs. Danvers, and almost every other character in the entire novel to be some of literature's most enduring fuckbois. We take on the text as the emblematic novel of the push-pull of heteronormative patriarchy, discuss the essential factors or race and class, and also ruminate on REBECCA as a queer text, thanks to some new details neither reader knew before recording! This is Fuckbois of Literature. Summary of REBECCA A nameless lady's maid meets the debonaire Maxim de Winter while working in Monaco. The recently widowed Maxim, who is many years her senior, is taken with her innocence and marries her, and brings her back to his manor home, Manderley, where he immediately expects her to become lady of the house. The Second Mrs. de Winter is overshadowed constantly by the community's memory for Maxim's first wife, Rebecca, and is ostracized by Manderley's lead housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers. As the Second Mrs. de Winter becomes more unhinged, she discovers Maxim murdered Rebecca for having an affair and falling pregnant, and Mrs. Danvers is undone by Maxim avoiding murder charges, so she burns down Manderley.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Fuckbois of Lit Returns February 5th! Our second season is loaded with fantastic topics. Favorite guests from Season 1 are scheduled to return, with plenty of new voices and topics to keep those who love us coming back week after week. Are you subscribed? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Bianca Hernandez (@bookhoarding/@drunk_austen) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to re-cap the fuckboi-filled, gothic comedy NORTHANGER ABBEY by Jane Austen. This is our finale for Season 1! Fuckbois of Literature will return in February 2020 with our second season of comedic commentary about literature and books. Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @FuckboisOfLit. Summary of NORTHANGER ABBEY Catherine Morland is an upper-middle-class single woman from the sticks. Without anyone to properly introduce her into monied society, Catherine attends the summer at Bath with her weird older neighbors. While there, she is befriended by the two young Thorpe siblings– fancy and false Isabella, and gruff and stupid John. Catherine is sidelined by the Thorpes, but catches the eye of the desireable Henry Tilney, and befriends his younger sister, Eleanor. Isabella visits the Tilney family home, Northanger Abbey, and is quickly convinced that Henry's father, the General, murdered his first wife; she is caught snooping through the house while John Thorpe is also sabotaging her prospects with Henry by lying to the General about Catherine's wealth. The General kicks Catherine to the curb, but Henry determines the truth and proposes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Vanity Fair writer Joanna Robinson (@JoWroteThis) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss the perennial holiday favorite, LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott. We discuss the new Greta Gerwig fim adaptation of Little Women, the fuckboi levels of Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy, the expectations of women in literature, and how come Behr >>> Laurie. Fuckbois of Literature abound in LITTLE WOMEN! Summary of LITTLE WOMEN The mildly disgraced March family is living in Massachusetts; mother Marmie, and daughters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy doing their best while Mr. March is away, acting as a chaplain in the Civil War. The sisters get into hijinks and consider marriage and future lives, especially when the charismatic, handsome, and rich Theodore "Laurie" Laurence moves in next door. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Renaissance poet Thomas Campion gives us a charming, two-stanza poem about how to love winter, and bring little joys into your life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Comedian Dave Child (@MrDaveChild) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss the ultimate Christmas classic– A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Turns out, in addition to the power he wields as an uber-rich banker, Scrooge was an absolute romantic fuckboi, to boot.   iTunes Spotify YouTube Stitcher Google Play Music Anchor Do you want to work with us? Email us! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Winter-Time,  by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and The Snow-Storm, by Robert Louis Stevenson, are helping to remind this LA transplant what it's like to live through Nor-Easters, hail, graupel, and sleet, and all the amazing stories of growing up in a place that turns white six months out of the year. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

The modern morality tail of how to stay good for Christmas. Ashley Beall of Make It Modern Podcast (@MIM_Podcast) joins me to discuss the redemption arcs of one of KidLit's biggest fuckbois, Edmund Pevensie.  Summary of THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE During World War II, the four Pevensie children– Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy– are send to a strange country home to wait out the war. While there, Lucy discovers a magic wardrobe that leads to a parallel universe called Narnia. She tells her siblings about it, and they do not believe her; but one day Edmund– the bitterest, shittiest sibling– finds the doorway and enters Narnia himself, pre-emptively befriending the evil White Witch who is trying to take over the entire country. Peter, Susan, and Lucy all enter Narnia in an attempt to save Edmund, with the help of Jesus, I mean, Aslan. After they win and Edmund apologizes, the four siblings become the royalty of Narnia, and grow to adulthood before exiting the wardrobe, only to find themselves children again in England. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

A short bonus episode featuring John Keats' IN DREAR-NIGHTED DECEMBER, and a short essay on the role of memory and hope.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

The brilliant comedian and writer Sara Benincasa (@sarajbenincasa) stops by to have a fantastic conversation about spirituality, goodness, purpose, and fuckbois of the Christian Bible. I promise you it's more nuanced than you think.   iTunes Spotify YouTube Stitcher Google Play Music Anchor Do you want to work with us? Email us! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message