F***bois of Literature Book Podcast

Marci and Ako, the hosts of the PHENOMENAL podcast Colored Pages Book Club, join host Emily Edwards to discuss the intensely traumatic Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire. CONTENT WARNINGS: Rape, sexual assault, sex work, domestic violence, addiction In this episode we discuss: America's mutable definition of whiteness White female complicity in the patriarchy Gaslighting and abuse t...

This past week, a confluence of events had us considering "the magic of childhood"- from Supreme Court rulings to Peter Pan winning Fuckboi Fever, but then that Orlando Sentinal Op-Ed about the Magic of Disney sent us over the top. We get a little heavy, but I promise the next Term Paper episode will be lighter. For a transcript, visit: https://www.fuckboisoflit.com/episodes/2021/4/27/episode-90-t...

In our second half of our discussion about Oscar Wilde and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, guest Claire Willett (@ClaireWillett) muses on how Oscar would have reacted to r/relationships posts, the sanctity of a name, and how we have to remember Wilde as more than just Victorian England's greatest purveyor of quips and jokes. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and p...

Writer Claire Willett ( @clairewillett ) joins host Emily Edwards for an in-depth conversation about Oscar Wilde, puns, and the duality of personality in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Follow Fuckbois of Lit: On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit On Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit BE A PATRON! http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY: Jack Worthing, under the ass...

[CW: Antisemitism, racism, self-harm, impotence] Fast Company staff writer Joe Berkowitz (@ JoeBerkowitz ) joins me this week to discuss Ernest Hemingway's first novel THE SUN ALSO RISES. A story steeped in violence, hate, antisemitism, and bullfighting lends itself to no sympathy and deep questions about how we interact with bigotry. Follow FBOL On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit On...

This week, we discuss the multi-facted nature of American sportswriting, and why American writers of the 20th century loved a great sports narrative. From Hemingway to Malamud to Updike, the Great American Novel probably features at least one jock. For a full transcript, visit the FBOL website: https://www.fuckboisoflit.com/episodes/2021/4/6/episode-87-america-on-the-field-amp-on-the-page Follow F...

Malavika of Your Favorite Book podcast ( @yfbpodcast ) is here to discuss HER favorite book, Bernard Malamud's epic tale of Roy Hobbs, Wonderboy, and seedy criminal underpinnings of professional ball in THE NATURAL. Follow FBOL: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit Summary of THE NATURAL: Befor...

After discussing THE WINTER'S TALE with Lauren Emily Whalen last week, I began to obsess over the role of incantation and women's speech in THE WINTER'S TALE and other Shakespeare plays. The quantity, quality, and goals of women's speech in Shakespeare's plays is directly tied to the view of womanhood and witchcraft under King James I of England. Get the transcript: https://docs.google.com/documen...

Lauren Emily Whalen ( @LaurenEmilyWri ) joins us this week to discuss the Shakespearean magical comedy/tragedy THE WINTER’S TALE. It’s weirdly #GirlBoss forward with a healthy dash of classist beyond belief, and a smidgeon of body horror. What could go wrong? Pre-order Lauren’s book based on THE WINTER’S TALE now!  Two Winters (physical copies): https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781636790190 Two Wi...

My dear friend Andrew Rostan ( @AndrewRostan ) is back from our Season 1 episode on David Foster Wallace to get to the conspicuous details of everyone’s favorite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Is he even a fuckboi? Andrew says yes, Emily says no. Listen to two nerds discuss Agatha Christie’s most famous mystery sleuth this week on Fuckbois of Literature. Watch the absolutely dynamite opening c...

Amrita ( @AmritaIQ ) from the dynamite #Booktube channel AMRITA BY THE BOOK ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A ) is here to discuss one of the most important texts from colonial India: R.K. Narayan’s THE GUIDE. Analogous to WIlliam Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County or LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, Narayan’s fictional Malgudi is home to Railway Raju, a man who schemes, plans, a...

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 b...

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...

[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?...

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 ma...

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_Ni...

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 Twitte...

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...

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: ht...

[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 g...

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: htt...

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...

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/fuckboi...

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.inst...

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 pro...