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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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01:46:17

Ep 675 - The Kid Who Ran For President, by Dan Gutman

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2024/11/04

It's election season here in the US (please go vote if you're reading this on November 4th or 5th)! And to uh "celebrate" we have chosen to put together a one-hour-and-forty-five-minute episode on Dan Gutman's 1996 book The Kid Who Ran For President.

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01:08:17

Ep 674 - The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris

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2024/10/28

The Overdue boys discuss Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs while enjoying some "fava" beans and a nice chianti.

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01:03:08

Ep 673 - I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson

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2024/10/21

I Am Legend is a foundational block for a lot of modern zombie fiction (even though its monsters are technically vampires).

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00:51:38

Ep 672 - Nothing but Blackened Teeth, by Cassandra Khaw

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2024/10/14

The boys from Overdue discuss Cassandra Khaw's novella NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH.

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01:00:49

Ep 666 - Tender Is The Flesh, by Augustina Bazterrica

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2024/10/07

Tender Is The Flesh is about a cannibal dystopia, where people eat other people and where maybe we draw some parallels between how Special Meat is treated and how real-world non-special meat is treated.

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00:39:16

Sit Me Baby One More Time Episode 0 - The...

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2024/10/05

The Overdue boys launch a new longreads miniseries on The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin.

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01:10:37

Ep 671 - The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje

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2024/09/30

Love is Patient, love is kind, love is English, love is listening to Overdue.

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01:15:57

Ep 670 - Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes...

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2024/09/28

The Overdue boys host a bonus episode about Pokémon: The First Movie (the novelization).

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01:09:18

Ep 669 - A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess

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2024/09/23

The best-known version of A Clockwork Orange might be Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, which is based on a version of the story that is missing its last chapter.

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01:44:45

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 7 & 8 (Books...

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2024/09/21

For our latest show-within-a-show, we'll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We'll be reading it a few books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. These two episodes cover Books 15-19Episode 7: Things start heating up in books 15 and 16, as Achilles finally sort of acknowledges that there's a war on and Patroclus rides out to meet his fate. Episode 8: Now that we've bid Patroclus goodbye, it's time to fight

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01:06:14

Ep 668 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark

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2024/09/16

The Overdue boys discuss The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - a classic novella about education, identity, and womanhood.

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01:02:19

Ep 667 - The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood

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2024/09/09

Atwood's Penelopiad asks: what was Penelope up to? What did she want? What if the Homeric version of Odysseus' story isn't the true one? And what if Penelope's version isn't either?

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01:04:29

Ep 665 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy

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2024/09/02

The Overdue boys discuss Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

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01:20:52

Ep 664 - The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the...

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2024/08/26

The Overdue boys close out Rick Riordan's five-part Percy Jackson series with The Last Olympian.

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01:07:04

Ep 663 - The Magic School Bus, by Joanna Cole and...

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2024/08/19

The Magic School Bus series, beloved of 80s and 90s kids as both a book series and a TV show, depicts a school where every day is a field trip and every field trip is actually a fantastical voyage through time and space.

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01:11:11

Ep 662 - Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami

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2024/08/12

The boys from Overdue discuss Haruki Murakami's bestseller Norwegian Wood.

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01:10:47

Ep 661 - Into the Wild (Warrior Cats #1), by Erin Hunter

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2024/08/05

Cats form societies and fight for survival in this Watership Down-esque introduction to the Warrior Cats series.

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01:01:25

Ep 660 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James...

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2024/07/29

The Overdue boys read James McBride's refreshing historical novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.

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01:11:37

Ep 659 - Beach Read, by Emily Henry

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2024/07/22

Emily Henry's Beach Read is a romance novel that's light on the romance, and also on beaches and reading.

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01:16:43

Ep 658 - Garfield: His 9 Lives, by Jim Davis (Bonus...

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2024/07/20

The Overdue boys return to the world of Garfield and his 9 lives.

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