F***bois of Literature Book Podcast

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 @ByBowesSUMMARYTom 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.More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CW: Suicide, depression, age-inappropriate reatlionshipsETHAN 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 InstagramLove FBOL? Review us on iTunes! bit.ly/FBoLiTREALLY Love FBOL? Become a patron: patreon.com/fuckboisoflitMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CONTENT WARNING: RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, GENOCIDE, RACISMI 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/FUCKBOISOFLITMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 TwitterMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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/RatchetBooksMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CW: Rape, self-mutilation, adultery, racism, transphobiaThis 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/id1527050387Twitter: https://twitter.com/yfbpodcastPROMOS: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/SummaryJenny 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.More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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/fuckboisoflitOrder Lauren’s book based on THE WINTER’S TALE now!Two Winters (physical copies): https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781636790190Two Winters (digital copies): https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/two-winters-by-lauren-emily-whalen-3581-bFollow FBOL:Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fuckboisoflitInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/fuckboisoflitMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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/fuckboisoflitClick 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/ More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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/fuckboisoflitMore ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CW: sexual assault, incest, trauma, abusive relationships, homophobiaGET THE FULL EPISODE: PATREON.COM/FUCKBOISOFLITIf 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 More ways to enjoy FBOL & Emily J. Edwards!Find Emily's books and professional information at https://www.msemilyedwards.comLove T shirts, pins, and other merch? The merch shop is live! https://msemilyedwards.threadless.com/ICMYI, the best way to support the show is to become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwardsFollow Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msemilyedwards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.