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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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Jul 11, 2022 • 1h 19min
Ep 540 - The Expectant Father: The Ultimate Guide for Dads-To-Be, by Armin A. Brott and Jennifer Ash Rudick
It's time to talk about expectant fatherhood. But whose? You'll have to listen to find out!For our previous discussion of pending parenthood, tune into Ep 347 - What to Expect When You're Expecting
Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.
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Jul 4, 2022 • 57min
Ep 539 - The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
In the world of hardboiled detectives, no one is harder boiled than Sam Spade, a guy who loves to get one over on both the criminals AND the cops while also romancing dames.
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Jun 27, 2022 • 1h 4min
Ep 538 - Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
Can we contain all of Tony Kushner's award-winning Angels in America, a Gay Fantasia on National Themes in one podcast? Probably! First we'll talk about Part I: Millennium Approaches, then we'll talk about Part II: Perestroika. And along the way we'll cover Roy Cohn, how to stage an angel, and the Kushner-to-Spielberg Pipeline.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.
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Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 1min
Ep 537 - Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1), by Seanan McGuire
What if the kids who fell into that wardrobe in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe all came back to the real world and needed extensive therapy to deal with the things they had seen and done? Welcome to Every Heart a Doorway, where a strong central conceit helps cover for a somewhat rushed mystery narrative.
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Jun 13, 2022 • 59min
Ep 536 - Confessions of a Mask, by Yukio Mishima
Tell me about a Complicated Man. Mishima's breakthrough coming-of-age novel about sexuality in late Imperial Japan has a powerful narrative voice and prose style. But the legacy of his work and his political goals has led to him being a bit of an "enigma" (as one listener referred to him) -- to put it lightly.
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Jun 6, 2022 • 58min
Ep 535 - The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter is often included as part of a high school reading curriculum because it's good at teaching people about symbolism, and it's good at teaching people about symbolism because it uses a half-dozen symbols roughly 700 times apiece.
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May 30, 2022 • 1h 4min
Ep 534 - A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
What if thirty years of history took place JUST beyond the doors of your hotel? And what if you weren't allowed to leave that hotel? And, get this, the hotel is in Moscow.
The beloved bestseller A Gentleman in Moscow fills its historical fiction with charming characters that you want to root for. But can we (or should we) figure out what it's trying to say?
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May 27, 2022 • 1h 54min
GOOSEBUMS, an R.L. Stine's Goosebumps miniseries - Episodes 1 & 2
Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! In case you can't tell by the name, we're reading a selection of eight spooktacular books from R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.In Episode 1, we do some table-setting on the series, Stine, and Scholastic books -- then we dive into the first entry in this long-running series of kids' horror books: Welcome to Dead House.In Episode 2, we try to figure out what kind of grow operation Dad's got cooking up in the basement in Stay Out of the Basement! Find out more about how to get these episodes monthly at patreon.com/overduepod.Also, here's the full GOOSEBUMS reading list:
Welcome to Dead House
Stay Out of the Basement
Monster Blood
Say Cheese and Die - Again!
Night of the Living Dummy
The Haunted Mask
A Night in Terror Tower
Egg Monsters from Mars
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May 23, 2022 • 1h 9min
Ep 533 - The Duke & I (Bridgerton #1), by Julia Quinn
Whether you're a fan of Netflix's Bridgerton series or you just want an Austen novel with more modern language and more explicit sex scenes, the first novel in Julia Quinn's series about the Bridgerton family has something for you. Just, uh, watch out for the nonconsensual sexual encounter!! Oops!!
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May 21, 2022 • 1h 14min
Ep 532 - The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot (Bonus Episode)
Who wants to celebrate April with some modernist poetry??? This month, we allude to many of the allusions in T.S. Eliot's landmark poem.
Thank you to the Patreon supporters who joined us as we navigated this tricksy poem. Find out how to join us for bonus recordings at patreon.com/overduepod.
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