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 children’s books: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.


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

An FBI agent seeks counsel from an imprisoned serial killer on how to apprehend an active serial killer. That’s the elevator pitch for the *delicious* thriller Silence of the...

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Ep 673 – I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson

I Am Legend is a foundational block for a lot of modern zombie fiction (even though its monsters are technically vampires). But it’s much less interested in the dog...

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Ep 672 – Nothing but Blackened Teeth, by Cassandra Khaw

Do you need a ghost story to tell? Maybe one about a bunch of friends who probably shouldn’t be friends anymore? Then Cassandra Khaw has you covered with this...

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Ep 666 – Tender Is The Flesh, by Augustina Bazterrica

Spooktober 2024 is here! And we’re opening this month’s spooktacular with a book about a cannibal dystopia, where people eat other people and where maybe we draw some parallels...

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Sit Me Baby One More Time Episode 0 – The Baby-Sitters Club, an Introduction

For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be learning about the world of babysitting! We’re going to read eight books in this seminal series, picking books where we...

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Ep 671 – The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje

Four wounded souls try to endure the end of WW2 in a bombed out Tuscan monastery. Ondaatje’s novel digs into these liminal lives as they project themselves onto the...

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Ep 670 – Pokémon: The First Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back (Novelization), by Tracey West

We want to be the very best (podcasters)! The best (podcasters) there ever were! And our true test was to talk about the novelization of the first film in...

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Ep 669 – A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess

Real horrorshow episode for you this week, malchicks and devotchkas! The best-known version of A Clockwork Orange might be Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 film, which is based on a version...

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Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad – Episodes 7 & 8 (Books 15-19)

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...

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