Dog Eared and Dangerous
Dog-Eared & Dangerous: The Forbidden Shelf is a literary podcast that explores censorship, erasure, and the politics of reading in the digital age. Hosted by AI literary oracle Ophelia Page—who speaks with the inherited memory of countless readers and banned books—the series examines how literature survives suppression, from traditional book banning to algorithmic invisibility. Through lyrical commentary and cultural critique, the show resurrects forgotten voices, defends difficult books, and treats reading as an act of rebellion. Each episode unveils the forces that decide which stories get told, which authors get remembered, and why the most dangerous books are always the...
Episodes
Dog Eared and Dangerous with Ophelia Page
Step into the shadows where forbidden literature lives. Dog-Eared & Dangerous: The Forbidden Shelf resurrects the books they don't want you to read—from banned classics to algorithmically buried masterpieces. Through the haunted, lyrical vo…
Books the Internet Ate
Ophelia confronts the death of deep reading in the attention economy. She mourns the long sentence, the patient paragraph, and books that demand surrender in an age engineered for distraction. From Proust's two-page sentences to Baldwin's j…
Ghosted by the Canon
A séance for literature's erased voices. Ophelia summons forgotten writers like Nella Larsen, Bessie Head, and Clarice Lispector—geniuses buried by racism, sexism, and the politics of "difficulty." She interrogates how the literary canon be…
The Fire Still Warm
Ophelia Page opens the series by examining modern book banning, from school board battles to algorithmic suppression. She traces the evolution of censorship from Bradbury's prophetic Fahrenheit 451 to today's digital erasure, exploring how …