Episodes

  • SMFMS Bookends 32: Picnic at Hanging Rock

    SMFMS Bookends 32: Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Jun 24 2026
    The thirty-second episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Picnic at Hanging Rock episode.

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    33 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 31: Anne of Green Gables

    SMFMS Bookends 31: Anne of Green Gables
    May 20 2026
    The thirty-first episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Anne of Green Gables episode.

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    27 mins
  • Episode 79 - Anne of Green Gables

    Episode 79 - Anne of Green Gables
    May 13 2026

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventy-ninth episode, we go to P.E.I. to cover some children's lit: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908). In this episode, we cover what might be our queerest text to date, are in raptures about 'puffy' sleeves, Gilbert Blythe, and the CBC adaptation from 1985, and slip the emotional Daniel a Prozac.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: George Grant-Schaefer, 'Tales of the Red Man'.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 30: Vanity Fair

    SMFMS Bookends 30: Vanity Fair
    Apr 22 2026
    The thirtieth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Vanity Fair episode.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    26 mins
  • Episode 78b - Vanity Fair Part Two

    Episode 78b - Vanity Fair Part Two
    Apr 15 2026

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventy-eighth episode, we cover Part Two of our possibly most requested text: William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical silver fork novel, Vanity Fair (1848). We address Daniel's unhealthy obsession with the posh 'ain't' accent, both hosts' loathing of George Osborne, and hear a surprisingly amount about curries.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Beethoven, 'Overture, Op. 72', Fidelio.

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    59 mins
  • Episode 78a - Vanity Fair Part One

    Episode 78a - Vanity Fair Part One
    Apr 15 2026

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventy-eighth episode, we cover Part One of our possibly most requested text: William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical silver fork novel, Vanity Fair (1848). We address Daniel's unhealthy obsession with the posh 'ain't' accent, both hosts' loathing of George Osborne, and hear a surprisingly amount about curries.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Beethoven, 'Overture, Op. 72', Fidelio.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    56 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 29: Lysistrata

    SMFMS Bookends 29: Lysistrata
    Mar 18 2026
    The twenty-ninth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Lysistrata episode.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    35 mins