The Talented Mr. Ripley - Danny Bowes
Link to a review of a biography of Patricia Highsmith: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/highsmith-was-a-troll-on-richard-bradfords-devils-lusts-and...
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Join host Emily Edwards every week to discuss the most toxic characters, writers, and tropes of literature, folklore, myths, and legend. Topics include feminist literature, toxic masculinity, gender roles, and intersectional representation in books. These are the Fuckbois of Literature. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/support
37: Ethan Frome - Taverlee Jaye
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’...
BONUS - Charlie + The Chocolate Factory
CONTENT WARNING: RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, GENOCIDE, RACISM I did an entire series for Patreon on Roald Dahl. The final installment was an episode on CHAR...
36: Michelle Remembers - Emmet Cameron of Believe Me Now
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 m...
Fuck Around + Find Out - Ratchet Book Club
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 ...
35: The World According to Garp - Malavika Praseed of YOUR FAVORITE BOOK
CW: Rape, self-mutilation, adultery, racism, transphobia This week, Malavika joins us to discuss some 1970s wackiness with John Irving's most famous n...
34: Love's Labour's Lost - Lauren Emily Whalen
Lauren Emily Whalen (@LaurenEmilyWri) joins us this week to discuss the Shakespearean sex farce LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. Everyone loves a strong, saucy l...
33: The X-Men: Wolverine - Andy Michaels
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 o...
ARCHIVE - The X-Men: Cyclops + Prof. X - Andy Michaels, Thom Dunn
From the archive: Technically one of our first episodes EVER, Andy Michaels (@StopThatAndy/@AtomicGhost85) and Thom Dunn (@thomdunn) joined us to disc...
32: Tender is the Night - David Avallone
CW: sexual assault, incest, trauma, abusive relationships, homophobia GET THE FULL EPISODE: PATREON.COM/FUCKBOISOFLIT If you hate the modernists as m...