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Overdue

Overdue is a podcast about the books you"ve been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy childen’s books: they"ll read it all, one overdue book at a time.

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01:10:44

Ep 720 - Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell

Overdue ·

2025/09/15

The Overdue boys discuss Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell.

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01:11:12

Ep 719 - The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi

Overdue ·

2025/09/08

For anyone who’s ever loved a movie or TV show where people in silly outfits pretend to be giant city-crushing lizards and/or robots, this week’s book plays around in a pretty entertaining space. If the references to the mid-to-late-2020 stretch of the COVID pandemic and the 2020 US presidential election date it a little, and if every single named character talks exactly the same, it’s still got neat ideas and a part where the evil billionaire antagonist is implied to have his face eaten off by a

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01:20:14

Ep 718 - The Four Million, by O. Henry

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2025/09/01

The name O. Henry is synonymous with more than just a candy bar. It's become shorthand for a brief, punchy tale that ends with a magical little twist. And this collection, his second published, contains such classic examples as the "Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem." Can you guess the ironic twist ending of this podcast? This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to squarespace.com/overdue for 10% of your first purchase of a website or domain. Our theme music was composed by Nick

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00:52:20

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 02 - Claudia and the...

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2025/08/29

The Club has been humming along for two months until a spat of terrifying phone-based burglaries have our sitters sittin' scared! Also, it's Claudia time! Between gigs, she must repair her relationship with her sister and figure out how to catch the eye of the dreamiest poet around: Trevor Sandbourne.These episodes posted first for our Patreon supporters! If you want to hear the rest of them ahead of time (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod. Here's the full Sit Me

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01:02:22

Ep 717 - Bad Summer People, by Emma Rosenblum

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2025/08/25

As a reader, you cannot get upset if you read a book called "Bad Summer People" and it's filled with terrible people and all the stuff that they do to each other over the course of One Fateful Summer.

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01:21:41

Ep 716 - An Extraordinary Union (Loyal League #1), by...

Overdue ·

2025/08/18

The Overdue boys discuss Alyssa Cole's historical romance An Extraordinary Union.

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00:56:01

Ep 715 - Mrs. Caliban, by Rachel Ingalls

Overdue ·

2025/08/11

We've all heard this story before—giant fish man escapes secret laboratory, giant fish man takes up with unfulfilled housewife, fish man and housewife have deeply meaningful affair, lots of people die. Tale as old as time! Suffice it to say the characters in Mrs. Caliban have a very different reaction to a giant fish than the characters in Jaws. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/overdue and get on your way to being your best self. Our theme music

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01:23:26

Ep 714 - Jaws, by Peter Benchley

Overdue ·

2025/08/04

The Overdue boys read Jaws by Peter Benchley.

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00:53:42

Ep 713 - Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan

Overdue ·

2025/07/28

Sometimes you just need to concoct a scheme where you encourage your casual boyfriend and your dad's casual ex-girlfriend to pretend to be in a relationship together, so that your dad gets jealous, so that he leaves his current more-serious girlfriend!

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01:16:09

Ep 712 - The Trial, by Franz Kafka

Overdue ·

2025/07/21

The Overdue boys discuss The Trial by Franz Kafka.

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00:58:28

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 01 - Kristy's Great Idea...

Overdue ·

2025/07/18

We have convened a club whose charter is to learn about The Baby-Sitters Club.

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01:05:03

Ep 711 - Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

Overdue ·

2025/07/14

Gay anti-fascist librarians roam a speculative future version of the western United States in this week's novella.

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00:56:34

The Sillymarillion Episode 0 - J.R.R. Tolkien’s The...

Overdue ·

2025/07/11

The boys start their longread project on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion.

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01:11:05

Ep 710 - A Boy's Own Story, by Edmund White

Overdue ·

2025/07/07

The Overdue boys discuss A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White.

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01:24:10

Ep 709 - The Complete Peanuts, by Charles Schulz

Overdue ·

2025/06/30

The Overdue boys read some classic Peanuts by Charles Schulz.

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01:33:05

Ep 708 - American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis (w/...

Overdue ·

2025/06/23

We’re joined by Sammy and Emily of the TOO SCARY, DIDN’T WATCH horror movie podcast this week to talk about Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho.

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01:07:50

Ep 707 - Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg

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2025/06/16

Leslie Feinberg’s debut novel is an intersectional bildungsroman about Jess Goldberg, a butch lesbian navigating the constellation of oppression that was the United States in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

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01:27:51

Ep 706 - James, by Percival Everett

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2025/06/09

The Overdue boys discuss James by Percival Everett.

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01:07:29

Ep 705 - Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

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2025/06/02

The Overdue boys discuss the award-winning Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.

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01:00:20

Ep 704 - Cursed Bread, by Sophie Mackintosh

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2025/05/26

This one's arguably based on a real historical event but with a non-real non-historical protagonist .

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