HeyJaredThe Boyfriend Review
We explore the shittiest boyfriends of western literature. Write early, write often.
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Jane Austen’s Daycare Situation (opens the original)
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I’ve been trying to avoid the Lindsay Clancy/childcare discourse, but I haven’t been able to get this comment out of my mind.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="584" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QlVZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:goo
The Odyssey, Hamlet and Andrew Lloyd Weber (opens the original)
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The Boyfriend Review is devoted to lightweight tangents about the 11 literary boyfriends covered in my (ACTUALLY DRAFTED, OH MY GOD) book. But I’ve enjoyed the absurd cultural fencing around Nolan’s Odyssey movie, and while Ulysses is one of the most famous husbands of literature, he also qualifies as a Shitty Boyfriend, so here we go. Odysseus NowA blog about performance and interpretation in three parts.I.The most controversial aspect of Nolan’s adaptation has been the casting. Recently, some
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