Link to a review of a biography of Patricia Highsmith: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/highsmith-was-a-troll-on-richard-bradfords-devils-lusts-and-strange-desires/ As it turns out, Patricia Highsmith was another one of those common birds, a midcentury writer of the antisemite variety, whose advanced-level bigotries really don’t come come up in the same breath as the praises heaped upon her, and they should. She was shitty. But THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY is a fantastic novel, colored by Highsmith's own hatreds, and her ultimate goals. Follow our guest Danny Bowes on Twitter @ByBowes SUMMARY Tom Ripley is hounded by a rich Richard Greenleaf Sr. to go to Italy and retrieve his son, Dickie Greenleaf, and bring him back to America for his mother's impending death. Once Tom finds Dickie, he murders the heir and takes on his identity, while avoiding capture in post-WWII Italy.

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The Talented Mr. Ripley - Danny Bowes

CW: Suicide, depression, age-inappropriate reatlionships ETHAN FROME is a weird-ass book. It’s shorter than JUDE THE OBSCURE, so that’s very nice. It’s nominally less bleak, but that’s just because it doesn’t involve child murderers. But it is bleak, it is creepy, it is foreboding and as we’ll discuss in the episode, we feel justified including it in our Spooky Season programming. Find Tav on Twitter at @TaverleeJaye and Instagram Love FBOL? Review us on iTunes! bit.ly/FBoLiT REALLY Love FBOL? Become a patron: patreon.com/fuckboisoflit

37: Ethan Frome - Taverlee Jaye

CONTENT WARNING: RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, GENOCIDE, RACISM I did an entire series for Patreon on Roald Dahl. The final installment was an episode on CHARLIE + THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, which feels prescient to the discussion of the upcoming movie starring Timothee Chalamet. My patrons generously gave permission to make the audio public. Read along with the transcript here. IF YOU LIKE THIS EPISODE: BECOME A PATRON AT PATREON.COM/FUCKBOISOFLIT

BONUS - Charlie + The Chocolate Factory

It's time to do the Satanic Panic! What I thought was a uniquely American Christian thing turns out to have some gnarly roots in Canada. Emmet joins me in a multi-part series to discuss MICHELLE REMEMBERS: the threat of colonialism, the trauma of miscarriages, and the lurking specter of creepy Catholic psychologists. Support Emmet on Patreon!  Follow Emmet on Twitter: Believe Me Now and Emmet's Personal Twitter

36: Michelle Remembers - Emmet Cameron of Believe Me Now

Just as I say in the intro, I chatted with Derik of Ratchet Book Club just for fun. If you're looking for a way to hang out with some people, this is a fun episode of 20 questions. Check out all of Derik's projects: https://linktr.ee/RatchetBooks

Fuck Around + Find Out - Ratchet Book Club

CW: Rape, self-mutilation, adultery, racism, transphobia This week, Malavika joins us to discuss some 1970s wackiness with John Irving's most famous novel, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. It's a book about feminism. Sort of. Follow Malavika's show: Subscribe here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-favorite-book/id1527050387 Twitter: https://twitter.com/yfbpodcast PROMOS: Find TICKLISH BUSINESS on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TicklishBiz/ Find ENTS AND SENSIBILITY here: https://entsandsensibility.com/ Find SAVE ME FROM MY SHELF here: https://www.savemefrommyshelf.com/ Summary Jenny Fields is the daughter of a well-to-do New England family who wants to become a mother, but never a wife. After becoming a nurse during WWII, she rapes a dying man and gives birth to a son, whom she names after the man who fathered him– Technical Sergeant Garp. T.S. Garp is raised at an all-boys boarding school my his controlling mother, becomes a champion wrestler, marries the coach's daughter, Helen, and goes on to become a writer, in the footsteps of his mother, who penned a best-selling feminist treatise. Garp's sexual affairs and impolitic demeanor leads to the early demise of several characters.

35: The World According to Garp - Malavika Praseed of YOUR FAVORITE BOOK

Lauren Emily Whalen (@LaurenEmilyWri) joins us this week to discuss the Shakespearean sex farce LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. Everyone loves a strong, saucy lady PLUS at least two scenes of masks! What's not to love about this play? Listen to the full hour-long episode on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit Order Lauren’s book based on THE WINTER’S TALE now! Two Winters (physical copies): https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781636790190 Two Winters (digital copies): https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/two-winters-by-lauren-emily-whalen-3581-b Follow FBOL: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit

34: Love's Labour's Lost - Lauren Emily Whalen

We’ve long maintained that Graphic Novels and comics **are** literature, so it should come as no surprise that we’re discussing this guy today. He’s one of the most successful ONSCREEN comic book translations we’ve ever seen. He has everything-- pathos, motive, historical context, and pecs that just won’t quit. What else could we ask for? Follow Andy on Twitter: @StopThatAndy and/or @AtomicGhost85 Listen to the whole episode on Patreon: Patreon.com/fuckboisoflit Click for our original episode on Cyclops & Professor X   Here's a link to a video of a Wolverine (actual weasel) scritching his butt on some cinnamon, because why not. https://fb.watch/80EDmcZlob/ 

33: The X-Men: Wolverine - Andy Michaels

From the archive: Technically one of our first episodes EVER, Andy Michaels (@StopThatAndy/@AtomicGhost85) and Thom Dunn (@thomdunn) joined us to discuss the various Fuckbois of Graphic Novels in the classic series THE X-MEN. Andy will be back this week to discuss Wolverine, and Thom will be back later this season to discuss READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline. For full episodes, be a patron: patreon.com/fuckboisoflit 

ARCHIVE - The X-Men: Cyclops + Prof. X - Andy Michaels, Thom Dunn

 CW: sexual assault, incest, trauma, abusive relationships, homophobia GET THE FULL EPISODE: PATREON.COM/FUCKBOISOFLIT If you hate the modernists as much as I do, you'll want to click away. But don't! This is one of the first books in which we can watch a real-life fuckboi of literature grapple with the way he has hurt and continues to hurt the people in his life. WIth the glitz, glamour, and shine of Hollywood and the French Riviera, Dick Diver– the stand-in for F. Scott Fitzgerald– comes to terms with the way he hurts himself and others. A brilliant read and better conversation with David Avallone. Check out David's work at davidavallonefreelance.com or follow on Twitter at @DAvallone  Link to the ¡Hola Papí! column by JP Brammer on being ghosted: https://holapapi.substack.com/p/i-got-ghosted-big-time 

32: Tender is the Night - David Avallone

My guest, Rob Walker (@timidwerewolf) gets into a discussion of hope and beauty while discussing the PTSD manifesto from Kurt Vonnegut.  CW: Fat-shaming, torture, murder, war, PTSD SUMMARY Billy Pilgrim is an optometrist from Ilium, New York who is living with the memories of his time as a POW from World War II. This manifests as a consciousness that has become "unstuck in time," so that his brain will travel to all future and past memories at random.  

31: Slaughterhouse-Five - Rob Walker

Sylvia Plath scholar Emily Van Duyne (@EmilyVanDuyne) is here to discuss the complex and interlinked legacies of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. CONTENT WARNINGS: suicide (obviously), physical abuse, adultery.  Normally I give a quick bullet points of what we discuss in the episode, but it's here that I have to say: we discuss everything. Legacy, outsider-ism, choice, American vs British politics, sexual politics, and criticism and the nature of art. There are more laughs than you think.  Subscribe to Prof. Van Duyne's substack here: https://lovingsylviaplath.substack.com/ Listen to the remainder of this episode by becoming a $1 patron at patreon.com/fuckboisoflit TED HUGHES was an English poet, translator, playwright, and children's author, best known, possibly, as being the husband of Sylvia Plath at the time of her death. Often writing with deep natural symbolism, Hughes's life was inextricably linked with Plath's legacy for the 30+ years he lived on after her. His career was managed by his sister, Olwyn Hughes, and he maintained primary control over Plath's estate, publishing rights, and legacy. Hughes was named Poet Laureate of Britain in 1984 and held the office until his death in 1998. 

30: Ted Hughes - Prof. Emily Van Duyne

The extended episode on FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS discusses truth, fiction, and how people can break down power structures. But in this 10 minute segment, my guest Danielle Ryan (@danirat) and I talk about all the people who see the exposed power structures in the prose of white male writers and… embrace it. And become a part of it.  Become a patron for just $1 and receive the full episode: patreon.com/fuckboisoflit

29: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

 **This episode first aired in October 2019** Content warnings: violence, rape, torture We are re-posting our episode on A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in preparation for the 2021 airing of an episode of FEAR + LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson. Books of kindred spirit, FEAR + LOATHING was published roughly a decade after CLOCKWORK ORANGE appeared in 1962. FROM THE ORIGINAL POST: The amazing Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (@LTBComedy) got host Emily Edwards (@MsEmilyEdwards) to read a book she's dreaded her entire life: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. SUMMARY Alex is a teenage ne'er-do-well living at some point in the not-defined future of London. He and his marauding band of goons commit various crimes (murder, rape) until Alex is caught and sent through a re-education camp. His moral salvation depends on if you read the book or watch the movie. 

ARCHIVE - A Clockwork Orange - Lucé Tomlin-Brenner

Greetings, Attic Wives and Lit witches, I'm the host of Fuckbois of Literature, Emily Edwards. [music] Thank you so much for tuning in, and sticking around. FBOL is the ultimate comedy podcast about books, and the shittiest people in lit. In case you haven’t noticed, we like to keep it casual, with informed but not academic takes on books, often laced with more than a little bit of down-home profanity. In addition to all the classics you read in school, including books like FRANKENSTEIN or PRIDE AND PREJUDICE or THE GREAT GATSBY, we cover all sorts of texts like LGBTQ classics, feminist prose, and more than our fair share of comics and graphic novels. Our diverse team of guest speakers has included best-selling novelists, TV personalities, and all of your favorite Twitter shit kickers. So, hit that subscribe button, and get ready to meet the Fuckbois of Literature.   

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