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? Follow my guest, Taverlee Laskauskas, on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TaverleeJaye" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/TaverleeJaye</a> Get the rest of this episode on Patreon: <a href="http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit</a> 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. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

9: Endgame - Jody DiPerna

• FBOL is now on Patreon! Subscribe:&nbsp;http://www.patreon.com/msemilyedwards • The podcast about the most groan-worthy, enraging, and sh*t characters in lit. Join host Emily Edwards and a guest for a weekly "book club" discussion on every book you wanted to destroy in English class, but couldn't. Classic literature of Europe and the Americas– everything from mythology to Victorian epics to the modernists– is hard to get through, and each week, we take on a frequently assigned book to talk about all of its highs and lows. These are the Fuckbois of Literature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.