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Gonzaga University Classics Professor, Amy Pistone (@apistone) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss the history of THE ODYSSEY, the unexpected feminism of Penelope, and all the millions of ways that Odysseus is one epic fuckboi.  Summary of THE ODYSSEY Odysseus, the great Greek general from Ithaca, is trying to return home to his wife, Penelope, after the Trojan War has kept him away for many years. But he's pissed off the god of the sea, Poseidon, so much so that Poseidon keeps blowing his ship off-course and into the paths of many trials. At each one, Odysseus proves he's a terrible person, and when he returns home, he viciously kills his wife's suitors so he can have her back. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

In honor of the imminent American Thanksgiving situation, I take on Colonialism, Puritans, and anti-vaxxers all in one poem! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Becky of @PrairiePhlox joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss all of the millions of fuckbois from JRR Tolkien's epic– including Tolkien himself.   Summary of LORD OF THE RINGS Frodo, a hobbit, is left a magical ring by his uncle Bilbo. Turns out the ring is super evil and he needs a rag-tag group of friends to chuck it into an equally evil volcano. It takes like 1000 pages to tell their tale. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

I swear, we're going to be uplifting for this one. A little dash of history and a fun story from my college years.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Val Prozorova (@valprozwriter) joins me from the far reaches of New Zealand to discuss one of the most landmark books in the LGBT canon: André Aciman's CALL ME BY YOUR NAME. We get into that 17 year old horny brainspace, age differences, and yes, we talk about peaches. Sorry. Summary of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Elio Perlman is a 17 year old boy living in Italy with his scholar parents. Each summer, his parents allow a student to live with them to work on their own book and assist his father with scholarly work, and this summer, it's Oliver. Elio immediately falls in love with Oliver, despite their age difference and Oliver's seeming ambivalence to Elio's crush. Eventually, they consummate their relationship before Oliver disappears from Elio's life in Italy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

A short story and essay about identity, friendship, and respect. The article mentioned in the commentary is this from The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/05/22/what-loss-new-york-police-museum-means-criminal-justice-reform/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Lauren and Nicole (who are not very online) join me to discuss a chief Fantasy Fuckboi: Lord Asriel of HIS DARK MATERIALS. If you've watched episode one of the new HBO series, be aware: this is spoiler heavy! Summary of HIS DARK MATERIALS Lyra Belacqua is a child without parents in a parallel version of Oxford, England. In this parallel universe, a human's soul takes animal form outside of their body; and Lyra's is Pantalaimon. As Lyra has not hit puberty yet, Pan has not taken a constant form. Her uncle, Lord Asriel, is a scientist at Oxford who is secretly researching a phenomenon called "Dust," much to the anger of the Roman Catholic Church. Lyra learns of dust at the same time she is given a mysterious Golden Compass that she can read like tarot cards when she asks it a question. She is then kidnapped by an evil woman of the church named Mrs. Coulter, who brings her to the North Pole to separate Lyra's soul from her. Using her Golden Compass and friends she made along the way, Lyra escapes, but not before she finds her uncle (who is actually her parent, along with Mrs. Coulter) performing an experiment with the Northern Lights, during which he sacrifices Lyra and opens a rift to a parallel universe (ours), through which Lyra escapes. In subsequent books, Lyra meets a boy from our universe named Will, and together they become the new Adam and Eve and kill God. It's complicated. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

The poem is about the celebration of American potential, but in research, I learned one of American poetry's greatest heroes is, possibly, still an albatross around our necks.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Entertainment writer Danielle Ryan (@DaniRat) joins me to discuss Anne Rice's banana-crackers, best-selling series The Vampire Chronicles, starting with the original book, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE.  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

Emily talks about THE WITCH by Coleridge (not the one you think!) and her obsession with Plague Witch lore. It's an upper! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Writer and editor Sharareh Drury (@ShararehDrury) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) for a nice long chat about the wizarding world of fuckbois that exist in Harry Potter.  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

The Hag by Robert Herrick is almost comically simple and cliche... until you realize that in the 1640s, witches were considered REAL. Emily Edwards reads the full text of three witchy poems from the 1600s, the height of the witch hysteria in England, and gives historical context on real life "witch hunts."  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

The amazing Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (@LTBComedy) got host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to read a book she's dreaded her entire life: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. We get into a lot, including the prison industrial complex, creating healthy outlets of expression, and why we can't just "respect the artist." CONTENT WARNINGS FOR RAPE, VIOLENCE, ETC.  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

On this episode of Frightening Friday Fuckbois, Emily reads and talks about ONE SUMMER NIGHT by Ambrose Bierce, one of the absolute masters of Southern Gothic literature.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Ph.D. candidate, Victorianist, and host of Podcast 13 Miranda Butler (@Mirandactl) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to talk about the beast of a book, George Eliot's MIDDLEMARCH– which (spoiler!) Emily found really charming despite the fact that it is 900 pages long, intensely political, and filled to the brim with fuckbois.  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