F***bois of Literature Book Podcast

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 More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and profess...

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 b...

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 More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.com Love T shirts, pins, and...

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. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.com Love T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live ! https:/...

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 More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.com Love T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live ! https://msemily...

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.  More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.com Love T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live ! https://msemilyedwards.thr...

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 More ways to enjoy FBO...

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. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's b...

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. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.com Love T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live ! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.co...

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.  More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's...

Let's launch our Halloween special month with a mini-episode on THE RAVEN by Edgar Allan Poe! Host Emily Edwards reads the full text and offers a little bit of insight on why she loves the classic tale. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.co...

YA Writer Lauren Emily (@LaurenEmilyWri) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to take down a 13 year old fuckboi who has plagued generations of The Quiet Ones: Logan Bruno of the MG series, THE BABYSITTERS CLUB. Turns out? Sometimes we don't hold out hope that a fuckboi will change. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www...

Renee M. Powers of Feminist Book Club Podcast + Subscription box joins Emily Edwards for an excellent discussion on female power, likability, and the power of the Old Crone.  More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.com Love T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live ! https://msemilyedwards.threadles...

[CW: Rape, assault, violence] You want to be horrified? Like, not scared, but OBJECTIVELY horrified? Welp, do we have the book for you! Gracie from The Feminist Critique Podcast joins host Emily Edwards to tackle the most depressing, the most cynical, the most upsetting book I've read in a damn long time: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books...

It's the episode you've literally been waiting for. Host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) teams up with your most beloved Classics Podcaster, Liv Albert of @MythsBaby to bring the hellfire (pun intended) down on Edward Rochester. And Jane Eyre. A little bit on Jane, too.  Summary of JANE EYRE After a protracted childhood of darkness and horror, abused and neglected orphan, Jane, finds work as a gov...

Writer and editor Philip Ellis (@Philip_Ellis) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to tackle the genre book that changed the entire thriller scene: GONE GIRL. What kind of a fuckboi move is it to even *be* an unreliable narrator, anyway? More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.com Love T shirts, pins, and...

Writer and host of the upcoming podcast JACK THE LASS, Kerri Kearse (@_iamlivingcolor) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to tackle just a few of Greek mythology's biggest fuckbois. It should not surprise you that... well, there are a lot.  More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.com Love T shirts, pins,...

Author Mary Pagones (@marypagones) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) remotely to discuss a truly misunderstood character of literature– Sherlock Holmes. From Jeremy Brett to Basil Rathbone, Benedict Cumberbatch to Wishbone, we run the entire gamut of Sherlock representations to figure out if people are doing the legend service, or if we're all trying to make him better or worse than he re...

Writer and pulpy, comic-y, spy-y expert David Avallone (@DAvallone) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) in-studio to discuss a top-tier fuckboi who might've been done a disservice by his popularity. It's time to discuss the double-O fuckboi in the room, James Bond.  Do you want to work with us? Email fboisoflit@gmail.com ---  More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's book...

Writer Kim Rohrer (@kimskitchensink) joins Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss a unique entry into the canon of Great Literary Fuckbois: Peter Pan. For a kid who can't tell that every girl he knows wants to have his babies, he sure does understand sexual politics.  More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.c...

Filmmaker and critic Danny Bowes (@ByBowes) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss A SEPARATE PEACE, John Knowels’s mid-century tale of private-school privilege, homoeroticism, and all-around shitty human beings. If you’ve read this book, you hated this book, and we parse out why. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at http...

Host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) is joined by filmmaker Jonathan Ade ( jonokino.com ) and together they examine another one of JD Salinger's greatest hits, FRANNY & ZOOEY, the two short stories mashed together to make a novella of a comatose but delightful young woman and her older brother, who could slide down the slippery slope of F-boi-dom any day.  More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J...

[CW: Suicide, Domestic Violence] Author Andrew Rostan (@AndrewRostan) joins host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to discuss some of literature’s biggest F boys– writer David Foster Wallace but also the readers who worship him. He’s a gaslighting misogynist and that’s not the worst part! Do you want to work with us? Email fboisoflit@gmail.com More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emi...

Writer and filmmaker Josie Campbell (@CozyJamble) joins host Emiy Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) in studio to discuss Le Morte d'Arthur and the Arthurian legendary jerks.  More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards! Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.com Love T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live ! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ I...

Writer Michelle Athy (@SunflowerRei) calls in to host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to chat about the one Middle Grade literature classic everyone seems to have read– and completely forgotten. TUCK EVERLASTING by Natalie Babbitt is one screwed-up book: from the predatory actions of chief jerk, Jesse Tuck, to a really unsettling color for the villain’s suit. More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J....