Saturday Show #46: Find the Bad Guy by Jeffrey Eugenides (Or, The End of Men?)
Summary: Are we in the American era of the disappearance of men? How does this manifest in literature and the arts? Have men become nothing more than spectators watching other men slap each other on the ass? What can be done about the epidemic of boy-men running around in America? Can men be salvaged? Should they be salvaged? Frank addresses these questions through the prism of the short story “Find the Bad Guy” by Jeffrey Eugenides. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides has been filmed, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France’s Prix Médicis.<br> Show Notes and Relevant Links:<br> <a href="http://jamiedunham.com/stats-on-women/" target="_blank">85% of All Purchasing Decisions in U.S. Made by Women</a><br> <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/uosc-sho010314.php">NEW STUDY: Half of Black Men, 40% of White Men Arrested by Age 23</a><br> <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2013/11/18/131118fi_fiction_eugenides" target="_blank">“Find the Bad Guy” by Jeffrey Eugenides</a><br><br> <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2014/01/02/men-are-obsolete/" target="_blank">TIME.com: Men Are Obsolete</a><br><br> <a href="http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/12/konraths-publishing-predictions-2014.html" target="_blank">Joe Konrath’s Publishing Predictions 2014</a><br><br> <a href="https://www.meetup.com/real-writers" target="_blank">The Real Writers Group Meet-up</a><br><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" target="_blank">Rob Ford</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/1cNhmXG" target="_blank">Paradise Lost Documentaries</a><br> *<br> The audio player above uses Flash. If that won’t work for ya, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/saturday-show-podcast/id451038870?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4">here is the iTunes.com link.</a> Alternatively, the Stitcher player to the above-right is also an option.<br> *<br> Music provided by radiotimes, admiralbob77, and lazztunes_07 of <a href="http://ccmixter.org" target="_blank">ccMixter.org</a>. Outtro courtesy of melodysheep on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR9sFzaG9Ia_kXJhfxtFMBA" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. <br>
