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.
Agatha Christie is the owner of numerous superlatives: best-selling novelist, influential mystery writer, criminallysuccessful playwright.Also, did we mention she’s a dame? Her novel,The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,written in the...
More than a year after readingMiddlesexfor Episode 12, this week we return to Jeffrey Eugenides’ oeuvre to check out 2011’sThe Marriage Plot. It’s a more focused, less-sprawling book thanMiddlesex,...
Dorothy Parker was a prolific Jazz Age writer who rose to prominence during her days as a member of the Algonquin Round Table – a group of writers, critics...
William Shakespeare’s reputation is basically secure at this point. He was hugely influential, his works are widely studied, and although he’s over 400 years old he remains a part...
Lois Lowry’sThe Giverimagines a world without color, without hills, without difference and most importantly without memory.Winner of the 1994 Newberry Award,The Givershares thematic DNA with classic “Kid Who Is...
In honor of Children’s Book Week, we each decided to read a Dr. Seuss book for this episode—that’s right, Andrew had somehow managed to avoid the Lorax, and Craig...
What if superheroes were real? Would we still revere them so much? Or would they be too frightening for us to handle, too unstable for us to control? What...
Mark Twain is an incredibly prolific, incredibly distinctive author. This week’s read is just a short story and it’s one of Twain’s first major successes, but it manages to...
Justin Cronin got his start publishing quiet but moving “literary” fiction. In 2010, he blew up North America (in a manner of speaking) with his post-apocalyptic don’t-call-them-vampires “genre” novelThe...
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