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, and falls into becoming a point of spiritual hope in a drought-stricken community. You can also follow Amrita’s Bollywood film podcast here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-khandaan-podcast For a summary of THE GUIDE, skip to 28:01 Buy the book: https://bookshop.org/books/the-guide-9780143039648/9780143039648 Follow FBOL: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit 

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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 books:  The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs Searching for John Hughes Follow FBOL: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

The Age of Innocence - Jason Diamond

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 Chau, that he's fighting for another girl's love. Exes, bands, and surprisingly racist caricatures come fighting in this poppy graphic novel series. Check out Andy's new music debut here: https://linktr.ee/atomicghost Find FBOL! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Scott Pilgrim - Andy Michaels

[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? Flowers where flowers shouldn't go. Keep in contact with THE FEMINIST CRITIQUE on their twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/feministcritique or on Twitter at @SouthofGrace @AisleneS and @FeministCrit Find FBOL  • on Patreon at www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit • on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit • on Instagram at www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit • online at www.fuckboisoflit.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fuckboisoflit/message

Lady Chatterley's Lover - The Feminist Critique

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 many of the hallmarks of the literary movement, including but not limited to: virulent anti-semitism, a fascist leaning, and really effed up relationships to women.  LINK TO FULL TEXT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pHU987DUT4UOZqYPDwkZz_8g7tb_hHp91aTkCFqCelE/edit?usp=sharing 

T.S. Eliot

 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_Night_of_Christmas_Eve   Follow FBOL on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit   SUMMARY (from Wikipedia) The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints religious art in the church. In the village lives a Cossack named Choub, whose daughter Oksana, an exceptionally beautiful village girl loved by all the young boys, is the object of the blacksmith Vakula’s affection. Choub goes out in the night with his cousin Panas to the sexton’s home gathering, suddenly noticing that the moon is not in the sky. Meanwhile, Vakula is trying to win over Oksana, who mentions that his mother, Solokha, is a witch. Choub and his cousin are suddenly engulfed in a snowstorm started by the devil and lose each other. While his cousin finds his way to the tavern, Choub comes upon his home, but the blacksmith, who is visiting Oksana, answers him. Choub cannot believe that the blacksmith would be in his own house, and concludes it is someone else's house. The blacksmith then sends him away. When Vakula goes back to Oksana, she tells him she will not marry him unless he can get for her the slippers off the Tsaritsa’s feet. While their discussion is happening, Solokha is with the devil in her home, when someone knocks at the door. She hides the devil in a coal sack and admits her guest but more of her admirers continue to arrive, and when her son Vakula returns she has the Mayor, the sexton and Choub himself hidden in sacks; the latter two were accidentally placed in the same one but remained oblivious to one another. Vakula spots the sacks and carries them to his forge, taking them for coal; their excessive weight makes him think he must have lost his strength, and concludes it had to do with Oksana not loving him. He comes upon Oksana, who again belittles him, and runs off saying goodbye to her, threatening to kill himself. He decides the only way to win her is to indeed capture the slippers, so he goes to Puzaty Patsyuk, a local Zaporozhian Cossack who is believed to be in league with the devil. Vakula asks him to tell him the way to find the devil while Patsyuk eats magical varenyky that fly down into a basin of cream and then into his mouth, Vakula brushes one aside as it rubs cream on his closed lips. After asking Patsyuk about the devil, he remarks that he cannot give directions to the blacksmith to what is already on his back. Vakula does not understand until he puts down the sacks and the devil hops onto his back. Vakula tricks the devil into thinking he will obey him, then grabs his tail and threatens to use the sign of the cross until he agrees to help. Fearing the cross, the devil takes him into the sky en route to St. Petersburg, leaving the sacks behind. A group of locals begin to take the bags and discover the men inside, while Vakula goes to find the Tsaritsa. He is amazed by the sights of the city, and has the devil (who shrinks into his pocket) transport him into the palace, where he meets up with a few Zaporozhian Cossacks who are meeting her (i.e., Catherine the Great). When she comes to greet them, the blacksmith appeals to her and glorifies her slippers, which she finds amusing and agrees to give to him. In the meantime Oksana gets upset because the villagers have been passing around the rumor that Vakula has killed himself. She knows that Vakula, a good Christian, would not do this, and that night she falls deeply in love with him. She is delighted to see him return and agrees to marry him even before he shows her the slippers. They get married and the story ends with a bishop passing by their beautifully painted house. In the church the blacksmith has made another painting, showing the devil in hell, which villagers spit on and the women bring their frightened children up to say “Look what a kaka (poophead)” (transliterated as: Yaka kaka!)! 

Christmas Eve - Dani Ryan

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 Twitter http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Follow FBOL on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY Joe Leland, a retired police detective, P.I., and terrorism expert, is visiting his daughter Steffie at her high-powered holiday Christmas party in Los Angeles, that eventually becomes a hostage situation for a group of sociopathic Nazi terrorists. 

Nothing Lasts Forever - Val

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 SUMMARY Painter Basil Hallward has a secret– he's met his muse, in a 17 year old boy named Dorian Gray. Unable to hide his secret obsession, he introduces Dorian to his friend, Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry, known to be a cad and leading rather the extravagent life, delights in teasing the boy and introducing him to a path off the straight and narrow. As Dorian toys more with habits and proclivities not endorsed by Victorian society, the portrait of himself painted by Basil begins to physically alter. After approximately three murders, Dorian finally meets his downfall after several decades.

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Liv Albert of MYTHS, BABY

 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: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY At the opening of the play, Gloucester announces to the room that his favorite kid is a bastard. It all gets worse from there when King Lear declares his daughters should beg for his benevolence by having an adoration competition to see who inherits his kingdom while he goes off into a Jimmy Buffett style retirement of drinking and carousing. The two oldest, Goneril and Regan, get into shenanigans while Cordelia just gets married off to the King of France. Literally everyone dies. Spoiler alert. 

King Lear - Avant Bard

[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 gouge out their own eyes. Follow FBOL on Social Media! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit Read the summary of the series on Neil Gaiman’s website here

The Sandman - Heath Miller

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: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit  SUMMARY (From Wikipedia) The story is set in Scandinavia in the 6th century. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland (Götaland in modern Sweden) and becomes king of the Geats. Fifty years later, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is mortally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower on a headland in his memory.

Beowulf - Kevin Sonney

 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.com/fuckboisoflit SUMMARY Approximately 40 years after the French Revolution, France is still in shambles. A prisoner named Jean Valjean becomes the adoptive guardian of a street urchin named Cosette, whose mother, Fantine, died while working off her debts to the family with whom she left her baby, a hotelier named Thenardier. Jean Valjean is relentlessly hunted by a police officer named Javert. When Cosette ages, a man named Marius falls achingly and pathetically in love with her, and risks his own fortune to follow his political and romantic heart. 

Les Misérables - Jonathan Ade

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/fuckboisoflit Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit

American Horror: From Poe to Grady Hendrix

 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.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit 

Wishbone - Cat Cardenas

 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 proportion to her crimes.   Follow FBOL on Social Media! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflit  Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflit  Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit   Read LADY SUSAN for free: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/946/946-h/946-h.htm   SUMMARY: An epistolary novel that young Jane Austen did not see published in her lifetime, LADY SUSAN follows the love and power trials of one Lady Susan, a recently widowed woman of few means who must rely on her wit and cunning to keep her in the status she so richly deserves. While plying her trade on wealthy young men and her own daughter, her sister-in-law does what she can to protect her own family's honor.  

Lady Susan - Bethany Brookshire

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