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 027 – You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers

It’s rare that we read a book and just out-and-out dislike it, but that’s what happened when Andrew read Dave Eggers’ You Shall Know Our Velocity! Eggers’ tale of...

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Ep 026 – Persuasion, by Jane Austen

Craig’s never read Jane Austen. Yes, it’s unbelievable. Yes, it’s sort of shameful. But making up for that kind of thing is what this show’s all about! Join us...

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Ep 025 – Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

Intelligence is a wonderful thing, but as this week’s book shows us it isn’t the only thing. In Daniel Keyes’ classic, developmentally disabled man Charlie Gordon is transformed into...

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Ep 024 – Grendel, by John Gardner

This week’s show is all about revisiting past shows – the book Craig read, John Gardner’s Grendel, is a modern prequel and/or retelling of the Beowulf myth. The book...

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Ep 023 – Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut

In the book’s preface, Vonnegut calledBreakfast of Championsan attempt to “clear his head of all the junk in there.” He wasn’t kidding.Breakfastis a melange of narrative, sketches, and character...

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Ep 022 – Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare

What isAntony and Cleopatra? Tragedy? Romance? History?Comedy? The conventional wisdom is to pick tragedy, but this messy entry in the later chapters of Shakespeare’s canon dances between the Bard’s...

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Ep 021 – Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

One note for this one: while every episode has a general spoiler warning attached to it, we spoil Yann Martel’s Life of Pi in a pretty big way in...

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Ep 020 – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Craig and Andrew team up with their evil selves this week to read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Well, not really. But in honor of our...

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Ep 019 – The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

We’re back from our hiatus, and to kick the rust off we’re diving right into a thorny discussion about race, sexuality, and poverty with Alice Walker’s The Color Purple....

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