Episodes

  • Episode 82 - The Rape of the Lock

    Episode 82 - The Rape of the Lock
    Aug 5 2026

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-second episode, we start a weekly, month-long miniseries on short narrative poems, beginning with Alexander Pope's 1714 mock-epic, 'The Rape of the Lock'. Daniel is determined to not have wig-face, both our hosts share childhood hair-cutting trauma, and we learn that this is where fairies with wings comes from!


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Vivaldi, Concerto in D Major 1. 'Allegro'.

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    39 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 33: The Woman in White

    SMFMS Bookends 33: The Woman in White
    Jul 22 2026
    The thirty-third episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Woman in White episode.

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    33 mins
  • Episode 81 - The Woman in White

    Episode 81 - The Woman in White
    Jul 15 2026

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-first episode, we cover our first (and THE first) sensation novel, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1860). Daniel gets pissed off at the narrative structure and the lack of concertinas, while Abby basks in the glow of some real bad biddies.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: 'Figaro' performed on the concertina by Daniel Jenkin-Smith

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 32: Picnic at Hanging Rock

    SMFMS Bookends 32: Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Jun 24 2026
    The thirty-second episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Picnic at Hanging Rock episode.

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    33 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 31: Anne of Green Gables

    SMFMS Bookends 31: Anne of Green Gables
    May 20 2026
    The thirty-first episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Anne of Green Gables episode.

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    27 mins
  • Episode 79 - Anne of Green Gables

    Episode 79 - Anne of Green Gables
    May 13 2026

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventy-ninth episode, we go to P.E.I. to cover some children's lit: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908). In this episode, we cover what might be our queerest text to date, are in raptures about 'puffy' sleeves, Gilbert Blythe, and the CBC adaptation from 1985, and slip the emotional Daniel a Prozac.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: George Grant-Schaefer, 'Tales of the Red Man'.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 30: Vanity Fair

    SMFMS Bookends 30: Vanity Fair
    Apr 22 2026
    The thirtieth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Vanity Fair episode.

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    26 mins