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 084 – You Are A Monster (Choose Your Own Adventure) by Edward Packard

Spooktober comes to a close with yet another Choose Your Own Adventure story: Edward Packard’s You Are A Monster. If you missed our previous CYA episode, do check it...

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Ep 083 – The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned, by Anne Rice

Spooktober rolls on with this week’s story, an Anne Rice novel that’s about spooky mummies and the women who love them. For real, though, people in this book have...

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Ep 082 – At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft

If you’ve ever heard of a Cthulu, read about the Necronomicon, or been creeped out by sleepy towns in New England, you likely have H.P. Lovecraft to thank. At...

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Ep 081 – Rosemary’s Baby, by Ira Levin

Our spooky October (Spooktober?) continues this week with Ira Levin’sRosemary’s Baby, a book about broken trust and creepy new neighbors and Satan babies and a bunch of other stuff....

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Ep 080 – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving

Washington Irving – aka Jonathan Oldstyle, Abner Knickerbocker or Geoffrey Crayon – is widely regarded as the First American writer. Born just after the Revolutionary War, he broke ground...

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Ep 079 – The Homecoming, by Harold Pinter

The stuff in these show notes is just as important as the stuff that isn’t in these show notes. At least, that would be the case if they were...

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Ep 078 – The Mystery of Chimney Rock (Choose Your Own Adventure) by Edward Packard

We’re trying something a little different this week on Overdue. To hear more, turn to page 44. To go back, turn to page 56. OK, this episode listing doesn’t...

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Ep 077 – Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman

Safecracker, prankster, bongo drummer, painter, teacher. Richard Feynman was many things in addition to being a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and he seemed to enjoy the incongruities of his varied...

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Ep 076 – This Is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz

This week’s story,This Is How You Lose Her, is a loosely connected collection of short stories that blurs the line between protagonist and author. Junot Díaz’s upbringing and personal...

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