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Daniel Jenkin-Smith

@dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.

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Save Me From My Shelf Podcast@smfmspodcast.bsky.social · 8h ago

The next instalment in our August poetical miniseries deals with a lil thing called *Romanticism*, as we cover Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798). If you like your weddings bassoon-laden, and your Constantinopolitans Platonic, then join us TOMORRAH!

Save Me From My Shelf Podcast@smfmspodcast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We had one correct guess: our big summer episode (which could easily double as a Valentine's Day or Halloween episode) is the Australian cosmic horror, 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (1967). Brace yourselves for the laughs, lusts, and primal screams of a buncha old-fashioned teens. Episode drops 17 June.

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Alexandra Irimia@alexandrairim.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What a nice surprise: my review of @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social's "The Rise of Office Literature" made it into the print version of Critical Inquiry -- and it's in great company! @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social Have a look at the Spring 2026 issue:

Critical Inquiry@criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Spring issue has arrived! Read new work by Loren Glass, Mercedes Bunz, Alexandre Gefen, Lawrence Venuti, Maxwell Gontarek, Emily McAvan, James I. Porter, and Boris Maslov. criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/...

Save Me From My Shelf Podcast@smfmspodcast.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some of you guessed correctly: For our International Women's Day episode, we'll be joining the ladies of ancient Greece on a sex strike with Aristophanes's incredibly horny comedy, 'Lysistrata' (411BC). Episode drops 11 March. Milesian dildoes at the ready!

Cover of Lysistrata, showing a man totally naked except for a headband and a little scarf around his shoulders making the 'come on, baby!' arm motion to a woman who has both hands up in protest.Cover of Lysistrata that spoofs the poster for The Graduate. A woman's leg can be seen while her hands sexily take off a stocking. In the background is a stunned looking Greek soldier.
Save Me From My Shelf Podcast@smfmspodcast.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We come out all guns blazing for our Christmas episode, and the final instalment of our banned books series, with Harriet Beecher Stowe's Civil War-causing/-winning 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852) - what's more, it's crammed with sizzling Quakers... Out on Wednesday!

Save Me From My Shelf Podcast@smfmspodcast.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's human nature to be a snotty private schoolboy - or so William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies' (1954) tells us - and we got into the spirit of this message with plenty of quibbling over pronunciation. Episode out on Wednesday! 'One fly to rule them all, one fly to find them' etc.

Daniel Jenkin-Smith@dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Looking to compile the definitive collection of portrayals of tyrants in bikinis. So far I've just got Caligula in 'I, Claudius' (1976) and Louis XIII in 'The Devils' (1971). Please get in touch if you have any others. Thanks.

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Save Me From My Shelf Podcast@smfmspodcast.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Some of you guessed our clue correctly: For International Men's Day (19 November), we will be release the most laddish book we've ever read on the show: William Golding's 1954 anti-colonialist schoolboy castaway narrative, 'Lord of the Flies'. No girls allowed, and 'Sucks to your Auntie!'

Book cover of Lord of the Flies, showing a bunch of (presumably) masked naked stick-figure lads dancing around with spears, on a red background that's dotted with flames, and also there is a big snake there.Book cover for Lord of the Flies showing a chaotic drawing of a jungle with loads of tiny lads looking lost in between the plants.Book cover of Lord of the Flies, showing a boy's face peering out from a bush, or perhaps wearing a sort of headdress mask thing made of leaves. I don't precisely know what I'm looking at. There are also a bunch of flies on a tree trunk or something in the foreground by his jaw.Book cover for Lord of the Flies showing a Rubenesque young lad in a schoolboy's uniform, with a fuck-off great big fly behind and over him, looking like it's almost going to pick him up. There are a pair of shattered glasses separate from this image, below the book's title.
Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast@utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Episode 15 drops this afternoon, 1pm BST. It should be fun. An episode about bureaucratic utopias/dystopias featuring an interview with Daniel Jenkin Smith, author of The Rise of Office Literature and co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social.

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Daniel Jenkin-Smith@dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If Dorothy didn't squash the Wicked Witch of the East, the legalistic Munchkins, still loyal to the Witch, would've subjected her and Toto to a Kafkaesque cycle of trials and appeals - all sung-through: 'The Bishop is in hock to the Lollipop Guild, but they're a front for the Lullaby League (etc.)'

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