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About Out-of-Print
Out-of-Print is a cultural commentary podcast with a literary twist, where real life best friends and former English students break down the texts and topics most relevant to the highs and lows of early adulthood.
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- Out-of-Print
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- arts · society & culture · society & culture
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- en
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- First episode
- 26 Feb 2026
- Latest episode
- 26 Oct 2026
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26 Oct 2026
S2 Ep7: Gothic Psychology in the Blair Witch Project
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The second part of our Halloween special is our first ever ALL. VIDEO. EPISODE. Switch to video to see our wee faces (and costumes) to get you into a spooky frame of mind. On this episode, we look at the gothic psychology in famous horror film ‘The Blair Witch Project’ alongside the first gothic novel, ‘The Castle of Otranto’, investigating not just if something is scary, but why... Key Texts: The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole Figures of Literary Discourse, Gerard Genette trans. by Alan Sheridan Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art, Dario Gamboni Further Readings: A New Companion to the Gothic, David Punter Picture Theory, WJT Mitchell Eighteenth-Century Fiction 27:3, Peter Otto
19 Oct 2026
S2 Ep6: The Making of a Modern Goblin (with Jen Calleja)
Happy Halloween! Out-of-Print is running a two-part Halloween special, and this one has our first ever guest. This week, Sophie, Alice, and Emmeline are joined by legendary goblin-expert-in-residence and author Jen Calleja. We discuss the big pressing questions of today: Are you a goblin? Do you want to be a goblin? And what does it mean to be a goblin? Tune in for international goblins, goblin aspirations, goblinification, goblin spaces, goblin aesthetics, goblin mode (and vampire mode), and most importantly, discussing Jen’s fabulous book ‘Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode’ (Rough Trade Books, 2024). You can buy Goblinhood here: https://roughtradebooks.com/products/goblinhood-goblin-as-a-mode-jen-calleja (https://roughtradebooks.com/products/goblinhood-goblin-as-a-mode-jen-calleja) See Out-of-Print live at the Roundhouse in January: https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/out-of-print-live/ (https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/out-of-print-live/) Key Texts: Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode, Jen Calleja Year of the Goblin: Tracing New Developments of Digital Folklore and Urban Modes of Living in Online Music Subcultures, Luigi Monteanni, SOAS University of London, UK ‘Slobbing out and giving up: why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’?’, Kari Paul, The Guardian ‘Goblin mode: a gothic expert explains the trend’s mythical origins, and why we should all go ‘vampire mode’ instead’, Sam George, The Conversation Goblin Mythology: A Brief Study of the Archetype, Tracing the Explications in English Literature, Annliya Shaijan Encyclopaedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology, Theresa Bane Dictionary of Fairies, Katharine Briggs
12 Oct 2026
S2 Ep5: Dirty Weekend
Can violence ever be feminist? Is anger ever useful or productive? How is it that ‘female rage’ has become a TikTok trend? TW: femicide, sexual harassment, SA, and murder. Key text: Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi (1991) Referenced texts: The Uses of Anger by Audre Lorde (1981) American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis (1991) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012) In this week’s episode, Alice takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the revenge fantasy genre, with a close reading specifically of Helen Zahavi’s razor-sharp cult-classic, Dirty Weekend. Zahavi’s dark comedy in which protagonist, Bella wakes up one day and realises she’s “had enough”, then embarks on a vicious killing spree of certainly-not-innocent men in Brighton. Published in 1991, Zahavi’s dark comedy caused quite the stir — with feminist critics simultaneously lauding and rejecting it for its sardonic tone and (extremely) violent subject matter. The text was frequently critiqued in conjunction with Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho — another slasher published in the same year. The girls also explore why it is that one text has been forgotten about whilst the other has gone on to become a cult classic… The revenge fantasy genre often ventures far into taboo and ethically grey areas. We do not approach the subject-matter lightly and encourage everyone who chooses to listen to the episode to do so mindfully. If you or anyone else has been affected by what we cover in this episode, please consider reaching out to (or supporting) The Survivor’s Trust: https://thesurvivorstrust.org (https://thesurvivorstrust.org/)
6 Oct 2026
S2 Ep4: Jane Austen’s Gossip Girl
This week Emmeline transports Alice and Sophie to the juicy underworld of 18th century gossip, comparing Austen’s classic text ‘Emma’ to the contemporary arena of the high school, à la Clueless. The girls discuss the etymology of the word gossip, it’s function as a social glue and key driver of plot, and then unpack some of the hottest new gossip about their friendly neighbourhood aquarium… Primary texts: Emma, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Clueless dir. Amy Heckerling Secondary reading: Lise Gaston ‘Gossip Economies: Jane Austen, Lady Susan and the Right to Self-Fasion’ European Romantic Review Jan Gordon Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth Century British Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996) Claudia Johnson Jane Austen: Women, Politics and The Novel (1988) Gillian Russell ‘Sociability’ ed. Copeland, Edward and McMaster, Juliet The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (1997) Heidi Silcox ‘The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma’ ed. Dadlez, E.M. Jane Austen’s Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018) Patricia Meyer Spacks Gossip (New York: Knopf, 1985) Katherine Sutherland, ‘Jane Austen On Screen’ The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (1997)
28 Sept 2026
S2 Ep3: Fully Automated Luxury Craft
On this week’s episode, Sophie takes Emmeline and Alice through the intersection of craft, technology and religion. From the importance of girls making crochet knits for their friends, to community art pieces, to robots tending zen gardens, to media materialism, to nosy busybodies investigating craft communes, this episode asks the big question - not just if a machine can do it, but do we want it to? With special thanks to Dr Ben Higgins at LMH for assisting in providing the primary reading. See Out-of-Print live at the Roundhouse in January: https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/out-of-print-live/ (https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/out-of-print-live/) Key Texts: Assorted textual products of the Little Gidding Group Little Clippings, Adam Smyth Liturgy at Little Gidding, Regina L Walton Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani Programming Patterns: the Story of the Jacquard Loom, The Science + Industry Museum Say bye to doomscrolling, experts say these grandma hobbies and crafts are trending, NBCDFW Further Reading: Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork, Whitney Trettein Work by @dazychains on TikTok
21 Sept 2026
S2 Ep2: Valium and Cattle Farms
Hidden microwaves, false dreams, and the tradwife movement. In this week’s episode, Alice takes the girls on a journey into Caro Claire Burke’s psychological thriller Yesteryear (2024) alongside Betty Friedan’s seminal second-wave feminist text, The Feminine Mystique (1963) to see what each of them reveal about the not-so-glamorous reality behind the lifestyle tradwives perform online. Both Yesteryear and The Feminine Mystique reveal the complexities behind a simple life and how the suburban housewives (of the 1950s and today) were impacted by living a life constrained to the white picket fence. “The suburban housewife – she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife – freed by science and labour-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother. She was healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned only about her husband, her children, her home.” - Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique, 1963) Key Texts: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (2026) The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963) Further Reading: Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (1972) Backlash: The undeclared war against American women by Susan Faludi (New York: Crown Publishers 1991)
14 Sept 2026
S2 Ep1: Notes on a Scandal
Out-of-Print is back for Season 2! Join hosts Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke as they attempt to decode a new batch of books with contemporary social and pop culture in mind. In this episode, they’re delving into the complex literary history of student/teacher relationships, and asking whether the English classroom is the greatest site of self-discovery? Texts Covered: On Beauty, Zadie Smith Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks The Groves of Academe, Mary McCarthy ‘When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision’, Adrienne Rich ‘Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading’, Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Three Women, Lisa Taddeo My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell Further Reading: ‘Managing Misogyny’, Susan Wheeler Ordinary Light, Tracey K. Smith Stoner, John Williams Disgrace, JM Coetzee ‘Women and the Literary Curriculum’, Elaine Showalter Resources for support: Mind https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/abuse/ (https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/abuse/) NHS https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/getting-help-for-domestic-violence/ (https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/getting-help-for-domestic-violence/) Women’s Aid https://womensaid.org.uk/information-support/ (https://womensaid.org.uk/information-support/)
11 May 2026
10: Season Finale: Side Characters
For the season finale of Out-of-Print, our three hosts take on the nitty gritty topic of Side Characters, delving into their importance in a literary, cultural, and real-world sense. This extra-special episode covers Jane Eyre, main character syndrome, Troy McClure from The Simpsons, Noo-Noo, Alice's nickname at her local chicken shop, literary theory, some seriously questionable one-night stands, Edna Mode, open source investigation, Nietzsche, sauna juicing, flat vs round, shagging on the rugby field, and some very special listener submissions sent in from Glasgow, Scotland to Christchurch, New Zealand. This episode is a mixture of studio recording and live extracts from the season finale, recorded as part of the Roundhouse Three Sixty Festival 2026. Key texts referenced: - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë - The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra Gilbert + Susan Gubar - The One vs the Many, Alex Woolch - Main Character Syndrome, Anna Gotlib - A Fish Called Selma, Season 7, The Simpsons Further reading: - The Supporting Cast, David Galef - Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster Co-hosted and produced by Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke. Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.
4 May 2026
9: A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
This week, Alice – our self-confessed “gross girl”– takes the mic to discuss hangover cures, 18th century anti-blazon poetry, and the politics of being a party girl in 2026. Key texts referenced: - A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, Jonathan Swift - Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva Further Reading: - Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 - Astrophil and Stella, Sir Philip Sidney
27 Apr 2026
8: An Ode to the Em Dash
By name and by nature, our very own 'Em' takes us through her love of whimsical grammar, and laments that the rise in generative AI has taken the not-so-humble 'em dash' from being an Emily Dickinson moment of pause to a sure sign your CV was written by CHATgpt... Key texts: Emily Dickinson 'I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain' Emily Dickinson 'I Started Early – Took my Dog' Further Reading: Goblinhood by Jen Calleja 'Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI Jesus', The Guardian
20 Apr 2026
7: The One Where Sophie Tells Her Favourite Joke
Sophie is hosting this week and has managed to shoehorn an entire episode around a terrible joke she likes. This episode covers the powerful link between modern meme culture + Dadaism, online collectivism, what happens when community art lands in the hands of the powerful, and our three co-hosts living on very different parts of the internet. Key texts referenced: ‘Dada Manifesto 1918’, Tristan Tzara Extract on Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, The Tate Modern Further reading: ‘Playing to the Gallery’, Grayson Perry ‘A woman in the men’s room: when will the art world recognise the real artist behind Duchamp’s Fountain?’, Siri Hustvedt, The Guardian ‘The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination’, Paul K. Saint-Amour ‘A Parody Cryptocurrency Based on a Dog Meme Is Now Worth More Than $1 Billion’, Bess Levin
13 Apr 2026
6: Rosemary's Babygirl
Is he actually a feminist, or is he putting it on? What does it really mean when a straight man wears a crop top? Do tote bags indicate malicious intent? This week’s host, Alice, takes to the mic to explore the babygirlification of the straight man and the evolution of masculine archetypes from the ‘softboi’ of the 2010s to the performative male of the 2020s. Key texts referenced: - Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin - ‘Your Straight Boyfriend Isn’t Gay (https://transtrender.substack.com/p/kill-the-straggots)’ from Transtender, Chrissy Further reading: - Gender Trouble, Judith Butler - The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin Co-hosted and produced by Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke. Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.
6 Apr 2026
5: Is Charli XCX a Lyrical Confessionalist?
It’s the pop star confessional poet crossover you never knew you needed! In this episode, Emmeline opens up discussion about whether the hottest lyricists of our time could ever hold a pen in the face of some of our greatest poets, and the answer is… complicated. Key Texts: -Charli XCX ‘Brat’ -Anne Sexton ‘The Double Image’ Further ‘Reading’: -Sylvia Plath ‘Ariel’ -Lily Allen ‘West End Girl’ -Robert Lowell ‘Skunk Hour’ -Lorde ‘Virgin’ -Taylor Swift ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ (proceed with caution) Co-hosted and produced by Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke. Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.
30 Mar 2026
4: Patrick Bateman Works in My Office
This week, Sophie hosts on the concerning trend of founders on LinkedIn starting to write like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. This episode covers TikTok, LinkedIn close-readings, Bateman’s morning monologue, the line between satire and stereotype, an alarming return to the 80s, the death of context, and the time that Sophie lived with a cult member who is currently on trial for murder. Key texts referenced: - American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis Co-hosted and produced by Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke. Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.
23 Mar 2026
3: Where Have All the Good Men Gone? And Other Rhetorical Questions
This week Emmeline takes to the mic to discuss everything from Shrek 2 to ‘heteropessimism’. Close reading passages from two contemporary articles, the girls in turn discuss some of the pitfalls of modern dating, and why the language we use to talk about it is so important. Texts referenced: -https://youtu.be/A_HjMIjzyMU?si=ZApvBuiCj6DIeOUI (https://youtu.be/A_HjMIjzyMU?si=ZApvBuiCj6DIeOUI) -Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back. - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/style/modern-love-men-where-have-you-gone-please-come-back.html) -The Trouble With Wanting Men - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/magazine/men-heterofatalism-dating-relationships.html) -On Heteropessimism – The New Inquiry (https://thenewinquiry.com/on-heteropessimism/) Further reading: -Notes on "heteropessimism" - by Shon Faye - Idle Thoughts (https://shonfaye.substack.com/p/notes-on-heteropessimism) Co-hosted and produced by Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke. Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.
16 Mar 2026
2: It's Shite Being Scottish
This week, Sophie discusses the importance of dialect as the ‘key to your cities’. The episode covers a (largely unsuccessful) quiz on Glaswegian dialect, a linguistic deep-dive on Scottish slang, how immigrants approach dialect, antilanguage, and how slang is more often than not, a sign of the times. Key texts referenced: Language as a Social Semiotic: The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning, Michael Halliday ‘How Africans are Changing French - One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time’, Elian Peltier, The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/world/africa/africa-french-language.html) Further reading: Scottish Newspapers, Language and Identity, Fiona M. Douglas, Oxford University Press The Discourse of Advertising, Guy Cook, Routledge Co-hosted and produced by Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke. Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.
9 Mar 2026
1: Sex, Rage, and the Green-Eyed Monster
How do you deal with jealousy? Would Shakespeare’s Tragedy, Othello, have ended differently had the eponymous hero had access to The Ethical Slut – a treatise on non-monogamous relationships? This week’s host, Alice, leads the discussion on one of our ‘uglier’ emotions with the girls. Key texts referenced: - Othello, William Shakespeare - ‘Jealousy’, Black Swans, Eve Babitz - ‘Jealousy’, The Ethical Slut, Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy Further reading: - ‘Lili Anolik on Didion, Babitz and Literary Stardom’, Emmeline Armitage, The London Magazine (https://thelondonmagazine.org/interview-lili-anolik-on-didion-babitz-and-literary-stardom-by-emmeline-armitage/) - Sex and Rage, Eve Babitz Co-hosted and produced by Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke. Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.
26 Feb 2026
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Out-of-Print is a cultural commentary podcast with a literary twist, where real life best friends and former English students break down the texts and topics most relevant to the highs and lows of early adulthood.
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