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Submit ReviewDavid from the Thank You Five Podcast (https://twitter.com/thankyoufivepod) is here to bless us with their sonorous voice to talk about one of the most ultimate fuckbois of literature: Howl Pendragon.
Check out the Welsh frying pan song here: https://t.co/zVD6PPo1tC
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Derik of Ratchet Book Club is here, at my request, to discuss a Middle Grad chapter book for which everyone I know has fond memories. But looking back 27 years later? You really need to think twice before you recommend this to kids. Especially little white boys.
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My beloved Lauren Emily Whalen is back to discuss one of the greatest YA novels of all time: Jude Blume's FOREVER. Ralph aside, this is groundbreaking novel that continues to uphold some of the greatest tenets of writing for teens: treat them with respect and dignity.
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This episode is what happens when you put two mystery writers in a room* and ask them to talk about Raymond Chandler.
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My wonderful, dear friend Tav (http://www.twitter.com/taverleejaye) is here to discuss another Agatha Christie stalwart: Miss Marple. One of the most essential whodunnits of its time, 4:50 FROM PADDINGTON has a cast of characters who are all, and I quote myself, "low-grade shitty."
The Tommy & Tuppence/Miss Marple mashup mentioned at the end is BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS.
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Rob Walker (with the phenomenal handle of @TimidWerewolf) is here from Colorado to discuss with us the detective classic, MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE by Edgar Allen Poe.
Read the full text of the short story here: https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the_murders_in_the_rue_morgue.pdf
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This episode... does not have a lot to do with books. Sorry! But we do go ham (pun intended) talking about America and farms and American self-definition and food. Lots and lots and lots of food.
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The dynamite Jessie Losch (https://twitter.com/JessieLosch) is here to guide me through one of her favorite childhood books– one I'd never read before and maybe got more magic out of as an adult than I know I would have as a child.
I make a few references to Charlotte's Web, but I decided to hold off on that ep until next week. Rest assured, it is coming in due time!
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KidLit September begins with this essential episode. And you know what's coming. But the full extent of it? Michelle Athy (https://twitter.com/PrpleMichelle) and I are here to dig into the text of one of the most moving and beautiful books on American poverty, gender norms, politics, and death we've ever read. I'll go out on a limb to say that it should be taught alongside Steinbeck in high school. It's that important to our understanding of American life.
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Listen. I know it's dumb. I know it's not true. I know it's legitimately bad. But I LOVE the Langdon-verse movies, with poor Tom Hanks huffing and puffing his way through historical European cities trying to salvage the reputation of the Roman Catholic Church. Thank God Hannah and Laura from OWWR are here to talk to me about the sheer inanity of these films.
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CW: Divorce, some transphobia
I have to admit, I had no idea this famous Robin Williams movie was based on a UK children's book. I'm trilled I got the chance to re-watch it (for the first time in many years!), and chat with Philip Ellis (@Philip_Ellis) about it!
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My beloved Dani Ryan (@danirat) is here to discuss piracy, but also Billy Connolly and Tim Curry and how we'd like to see the Muppets continue for Disney+. You can check out all of Dani's writing on tv and media over at /Film!
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CW: Some discussion of H*rry P*tter & the writer
Chael (@NarratorChael) from Once Upon A Re-Watch & Vampires Ruined My Life (https://linktr.ee/Narratorchael) is here to discuss the boy who won't grow up-- but does, both physically and emotionally, in both the movies we're discussing today.
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CW: Rape, sexual language, Paul Walker's alleged crimes, racism/hate speech
Listen. We know this isn't literature. But there is something truly sublime about ripping into a movie based on a book you love. Especially when the terribleness of the movie helps you realize that maybe the book wasn't great to begin with. Derik of Ratchet Book Club is here to help us resuscitate THE DEATH AND LIFE OF BOBBY Z.
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Alice in Wonderland is an essential piece of modern folklore, and yet... how many of us have ever read the book? Not as many as you'd think. So Jonny Holt (@jonnyliterati) and I sit down to discuss the logic of the trip, the morality of the crazy, and when you should eat oysters.
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Man, I love this movie almost as much as I love chatting with Malavika about pretty much anything. And today we're discussing the sublimely cast, picture-perfect MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson– among countless other beautiful people.
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Join your host Emily J. Edwards and Travis Crawford (aka, TV's Travis) to discuss a movie based on novelist Michael Crichton's famous novel of terrifying creatures-- CONGO. It's all sorts of colonialist nightmare, plus sci-fi horror, and so many wonderful moments of Tim Curry swaggering in khaki.
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Jody DiPerna (@JodyDiPerna) is back for our first installment of our Summer Movie Series, this time talking about Truman Capote's brilliant novella of the same name becoming a film with Audrey Hepburn. And it's super racist and really weird!
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Journalist and author Leslie Gray Streeter (@LeslieStreeter) is here to discuss all the ramifications of Mark Twain's most celebrated classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. From how to present the audio book (don't, maybe?), to who is the sociopath of the novel (not Huck!), we get into it, and discuss how our relationship to this novel has changed as we grew older, and politics changed.
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Writer and comedian Katharine LaRonde (@KatLaRonde) graces us with her presence to discuss our "homegirl" Laura in Tennessee Williams's first and most famous play, THE GLASS MENAGERIE.
SUMMARY
Amanda is a struggling single mother to two children in their 20s– Tom, who works at a shoe factory, and Laura, who is self conscious about a slight physical deformity. Amanda pressures Tom to bring a "gentleman caller" around for Laura, to get her daughter married, but Jim is a disappointment to the whole family.
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This week, journalist and co-founder of the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Jody DiPerna (@JodyDiPerna) is here to discuss my favorite play by one of my favorite writers, ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett.
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SUMMARY:
We are in a singular room with four characters: Hamm, who is blind and in a wheeled chair; Clov, his servant who cannot sit down; Nagg, a man in an ash bin and Hamm's father; and Nell, Nagg's wife who is also in a trash bin. They discuss that there is no other life on earth beyond the room. At some point, Nell dies. That's it. That's the whole play.
For an article on Samuel Beckett's work with the French Résistance, read this: https://forward.com/culture/144905/samuel-becketts-letters-reveal-roots-of-resistance/
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We're here to ruin one of Emily's childhood books, Ellen Raskin's THE WESTING GAME. As it turns out, it's pretty racist, ableist, and glorifies the owner of a company town. Woo hoo?
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Summary:
Sixteen "heirs" are tricked into moving to a new housing development on Lake Michigan, overlooking the famous Samuel Westing house. After Samuel Westing dies, the residents of the complex are summoned to Westing's house to hear the reading of the will– where they are all now in competition to be the sole heirs to Westing's $200million fortune.
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Well, Team Attic Wife, we're back with another dip into the world of grease paint and footlights, only SO MINIMALIST ALL YOU GET IS SPALDING GREY AND A GODDAMN LADDER. It's time for Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN, the most widely read play in all of American history, which your host managed to avoid reading until she was 36 years old. Don't worry, I did a google of "Thornton Wilder antisemite" and we discuss the results in this episode.
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Our dear friend Andy Michaels (@StopThatAndy) is here to discuss the world's mot famous genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist, Tony Stark, AKA, Iron Man. How did it take us this long to get to the archetypal fuckboi of Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Tony Stark has a tendency to fuck around *and* find out.
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My friend Abby– best known to you all on twitter as @ClapIfYouLikeMe– is here to discuss monarchical aspirations, poverty in settler times, and buying orphans. It's L. Frank Baum's THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ!
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Author Lillah Lawson (@lillahlawson) is here to discuss a slightly different maniacal dystopia than THE CRUCIBLE– it's Lois Lowery's early 1990s YA classic, THE GIVER. What does it mean to be the only person in your world with emotions? What does it do to a tween when he realizes everyone around him lies?
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Actor John Dellaporta (@JohnDellaporta) joins me this week to discuss the Christian Scientist manifesto THE SECRET GARDEN. One guess as to how your atheist, Advil-obsessed, and childfree host liked the text.
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PRE-ORDER TAKE HER DOWN BY LAUREN EMILY WHALEN, RELEASING ON THE IDES OF MARCH:
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Lauren joins us once again to discuss the source text of her new novel: Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR. Not just a history, but more of a Law & Order "ripped from the headlines" dramatization, the play discusses motivations, hate, regret, and thinking ahead towards your own legacy.
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We're here to get into The Book About Kids With Cancer– THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. We touch on Lurleen McDaniel and what it feels like to read about kids, death, love, and loss as an adult. Malavika Praseed of @YFBpodcast (who works in oncology) and I discuss all the faults of the navigational stars in this most-famous novel by John Green.
We reference this review of TFIOS from a kid who survived cancer here: https://disabilityinkidlit.com/2015/07/17/review-the-fault-in-our-stars-by-john-green/
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CW: Injury, menstruation, some intimated underage sex, it’s weird.
Is THE NUTCRACKER a ballet? Yes. Is it also a novella by ETA Hoffmann? Yes. It’s a Christmas miracle that Lauren Emily Whalen (@laurenemilywri, laurenemilywrites.com) is here to discuss all the different ways we can have a sexual awakening to small kitchen appliances!
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Link to ETA Hoffmann texts: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2008
Link to The Hard Nut Part 1 // Part 2
Link to Boston Ballet Trepak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgyliXHF9j8 // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-qVbWl5TYg
Trailer of the Dutch National Ballet Nutcracker: https://youtu.be/V3RoTxIuhvU
Trepak from So You Think You Can Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo4tyxXymgc
Russian/Cossak Dancing: https://youtu.be/O7MYUP_rGWE
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CW: Lots of Child Abuse
While American Christmas is here to tell you that scampering elves are magical and not malicious, cultures around the globe have Winter Solstice traditions that are a bit more fitting for the time of year when daylight hours are near non-existent and the darkness seems never ending. These traditions often involve violence and goats and sex and fertility and all sorts of stuff that gets right to the heart of the emotionally charged, shortened days of winter: Darkness is scary, and sometimes, all we can do is wait it out. And hope that it comes with cake.
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CW: None? I think? Maybe hunting humans for sport.
Sara and Lilly of Fiction Fans (@fictionfanspod) are here to be my guide into Terry Pratchett's Discworld, with THE HOGFATHER. We talk about death and murder and Christmas and darkness and it is so lovely!
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CW: Deep violence, sexual violence, domestic violence, crowds + mobs, police violence, racism, body-shaming, self harm
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Our friend Jonathan Ade (@JonoKino) from our previous episodes on FRANNY & ZOOEY and LES MISERABLES is here to discuss a non-fiction novel of violence and tribalism and masculinity: AMONG THE THUGS by Bill Buford.
SUMMARY:
An American in England, Bill Buford witnesses a train full of soccer hooligans erupt in violence. This leads him down an 8 year research project of discovering the root of violent hooliganism, as he tests his theories of what causes mass violence and crowd behavior.
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CW: Substance abuse, conversion therapy, mid-century queerness, incest
John Cheever is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who is the master of the American short story. My guest, Andrew Rostan (@AndrewRostan) and I fully believe Cheever should be taught more in American schools, especially through the lens of the evolution of queer writers.
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CW: Transgender Identities, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide & Self-Harm, Slavery
William Faulkner is part of the Big American Triad of writers: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. Why is that? Especially when he never considered America past the lines of the fictional Yoknapatawpha. Dr. Daniel Kasper, professor at UT Arlington, discusses the transitive definition of whiteness, the inherit nature of WASPishness, plus Quinten Compson and the sex no one is having.
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CW: Abuse, murder, capital punishment, pregnancy and infant loss
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Author and history student Lillah Lawson (@LillahLawson, linktree) is here to discuss Arthur Miller's 1953 play about communism and HUAAC, THE CRUCIBLE. Based on the real events of 1692, Miller adjusted the facts of history to fit his narrative and create one of the more interesting commodifications of American hysteria in art.
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CW: GamerGate, Jordan Petersen/Toxic Atheism, Fatphobia, Racism, Toxic Masculinity, Neurodivergence
They had time to unpack all of it, but they didn't. Today, guest Thom Dunn (@ThomDunn, https://linktr.ee/thomdunn) discusses Ernest Cline's READY PLAYER ONE, which has helped define Geek culture and absolutely for the worse. With no desire to dissect the world he's creating and asking the ultimate "why?", RPO takes a great storyline about governments, tech, and surveillance and does nothing with it.
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SUMMARY
Wade, codename Parzifal, lives in the OASIS, an immersive VR world, trying to solve puzzles to inherit the OASIS creator's fortune. His two best friends, Aiche and Art3mis, help him on his quest to defeat the militaristic IOI organization's quest to destroy the virtual world .
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CW: Emotional abuse, Explicit sexual language, Antisemitism, Racism
We've had multiple requests to do this book, and I was so excited Kerri Kearse (@_iamlivingcolor) offered to cover it with us! The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. is a 2013 novel by Adelle Waldman that covers the dating life of Nathaniel Piven in earl 2000s New York City. TL; DL: he's awful!
SUMMARY
Nate attends a party at his ex-girlfriend Elisa's apartment and meets Hannah. He and Hannah date and delve into a relationship of envy, false expectations, and status rivalries. Also, he's a sexist jerk.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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• Follow FBOL on Twitter: twitter.com/fuckboisoflitHey attic wives and lit witches and welcome to Fuckbois of Literature, I’m Emily Edwards.
Since I found out a lot of y’all are still subscribed on our free platforms, I wanted to give you a little taste of our TWILIGHT episode. In this excerpt, Strats and I discuss the inherent grossness of Vampire stories with an adult and a youth, comparing TWILIGHT to both Buffy and Pride and Prejudice, and how we feel about flawed female teens.
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• Follow FBOL on Twitter: twitter.com/fuckboisoflitIf you’re a longtime listener, you know by now that I don’t pick the books we do every episode, the guest does. Mostly that’s so the onus of reading or rereading fresh for the recording session is on me; people normally choose books they love or have recently finished in order to not have to read 400 pages of Victorian Sadness again and again. And I admit, I have rarely said no to a book that someone chose to discuss.
But I almost said no to this one. I hadn’t read it since college, I didn’t get it, I was too uncomfortable. But I should’ve known that my guest wouldn’t lead me astray. You all are in for a phenomenal episode.
Esmé Weijun Wang (https://esmewang.com) is the author of the best-selling book THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS and the novel THE BORDER OF PARADISE. Follow her on Twitter @esmewang
SUMMARY
Humbert Humbert, a college professor, moves to suburban New Hampshire and rooms with widow, Charlotte Haze, and her daughter, Delores, whom she calls Lolita. Humbert becomes obsessed with the 12 year old daughter, and capitalizes on Charlotte's death to kidnap Lolita and abscond with her for years while he molests her. Humbert goes off the rails when Lolita flees to the arms of a pornographer, Clare Quilty, and then her subsequent husband.
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Marci and Ako, the hosts of the PHENOMENAL podcast Colored Pages Book Club, join host Emily Edwards to discuss the intensely traumatic Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire.This is FBOL's final FULL, PUBLIC episode. For more, subscribe for $1 at our patreon:Patreon.com/fuckboisoflit
In this episode we discuss:
- The hidden bigotry of the "nice guy"
- The progression of domestic abuse
- The White Christian morality's gaze on sex work and queerness
- Isolation vs public life
CONTENT WARNINGS: Rape, sexual assault, sex work, domestic violence, addictionYou can find Colored Pages Book Club at:
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- America's mutable definition of whiteness
- White female complicity in the patriarchy
- Gaslighting and abuse tactics
- Recovering from a broken American Dream
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French composer Hector Berlioz had a little secret: he was a fucking stalker. Exacting his obsession on THREE separate women that we know of, Berlioz was most famous for one particularly hair-brained, cross-dressing, thankfully-failed murder plot. Listen now!
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What do you get when you cross approximately $200million, an aversion to monogamy, and Italian tempers? The sordid life of Giacomo Puccini, one of the world's most famous opera composers. Puccini's life was FILLED with affairs, questionable deaths, and surprisingly little VD.
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It's not really a sign of a life well lived when everyone accuses you of selling your soul to the Devil. Niccolo Paganini was the 1800s equivalent to Marilyn Manson, only with a lot more talent. His life was filled with debauchery, and ended on a very sour note. Listen to our first bonus ep on the Fuckbois of Classical Music now!
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