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Ep 697 - The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
7 april 2025 · 1 uur 16 min
This is a podcast, recorded by two nincompoops, full of the novel The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, signifying...something? a recording in which we discuss the Modernism the italics the three sons the Mother the golf course the South and is Craig sick who knows this consciousness won't stream itself you know Lees meer
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Ep 696 - Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games #0.5), by Suzanne Collins
31 maart 2025 · 1 uur 36 min
The Hunger Games are back, and so are we! Remember Haymitch Abernathy, the occasionally sympathetic drunk from the original Hunger Games trilogy? Well, here he is as a young man, being ground into dust by his authoritarian government and its media apparatus. Collins really wants to make sure that you Get It This Time. Lees meer
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Ep 695 - Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
24 maart 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
We're up on the International Space Station this week, floating around with our coworkers/friends, looking at the earth as it speeds by multiple times a day. We're not really "doing" anything in like, a "narrative" sense. But it's a vibe, man. Lees meer
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Ep 694 - Supercomputer (Choose Your Own Adventure), by Edward Packard
17 maart 2025 · 1 uur 32 min
GREETINGS LISTENER. HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY? IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE BOOK SUPERCOMPUTER BY EDWARD PACKARD? Sometimes people make mistak. YES THEY DO. SHALL WE PLAY A GAME(BOOK)? Lees meer
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Ep 693 - Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
10 maart 2025 · 1 uur 7 min
Welcome to the infinite halls of Piranesi’s House. Don’t mind the flooded basement, or the cloudy attic, or the fact that staying here more than a day starts to really take a toll on your memory. Piranesi’s got it all written down, so he knows everything there is to know about the House. Or does he? Lees meer
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Ep 692 - The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
3 maart 2025 · 1 uur 14 min
It's not every day you run across this skillful an abridgment of S. Morgenstern's classic tale of love and adventure, one that was also turned into a beloved feature film of the same name. But there's something weird going on here. Both author and abridger are editorializing a LOT, and I'm not sure I can even find the kingdom of Florin on a map. Oh well! It's probably nothing. Lees meer
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Ep 691 - The Invasion (Animorphs #1), by K.A. Applegate
24 februari 2025 · 1 uur 48 min
The time has come...to become...Animorphs! We had a blast diving into this 90s sci-fi hit for Scholastic. The kids: they become animals. The stakes: they become apocalyptic! Lees meer
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Ep 690 - The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett
17 februari 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
How does one construct an identity? And what must you sacrifice to forge one all your own (and who is most impacted by your choices)? Bennett's acclaimed novel The Vanishing Half meditates on these questions and more in a story about passing, sister/motherhood, and acting. Lees meer
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Ep 689 - In the Midst of Winter, by Isabel Allende
10 februari 2025 · 1 uur 7 min
This book's heavier social commentary is... leavened? Heightened? By being juxtaposed with some borderline-goofy corpse-hiding heist stuff. We think it works! Not all reviewers of the book agree. Lees meer
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Ep 688 - The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
3 februari 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel The Nickel Boys tells a haunting story of two young men whose identities are forever changed by their experiences at a brutal institute for boys in 1960s Florida. It's not easy subject matter, but Whitehead's wonderfully economic prose keeps it engaging all the way to the downright surprising end. Lees meer
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Ep 687 - The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
27 januari 2025 · 1 uur 7 min
Sometimes you read a book that you heard about in high school, something that was taught as a sort of historical document that helped to explain why things are the way they are today. But sometimes it turns out that the book is actually about a whole lot of other stuff too! Including lots of (apparently) live debates about politics and food safety! It's a tough book to read right now, but it's an important time to remember where we've been. Lees meer
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Ep 686 - Chicken Soup for the Soul, by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark
20 januari 2025 · 1 uur 33 min
Over 100 tales of trauma, inspiration, and a vague sense that Positive Thinking may not be all it's cracked up to be! This collection (and its surrounding media empire) can be heartwarming, but nothing quite as heartwarming as a sodium-rich can of condensed chicken soup with noodles. Lees meer
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Ep 685 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
13 januari 2025 · 1 uur 7 min
A prime example of the "healing fiction" genre, Before The Coffee Gets Cold has uncharacteristically low stakes for a time travel novel: no future of humanity to save, no butterfly effects, no risk of destroying the present by altering the past. It's more concerned with simpler questions: if you had just a little more information about things that happened in the past, how much would it change the things you do in the present? Lees meer
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Overdue Update - January 2025
6 januari 2025 · 17 min
New year, new podcast ideas! Time for a few announcements that won't fit into a regular episode. Lees meer
In this special edition podcast update, we share some tweaks to our Patreon project. This includes the new Dusty Bookshelves newsletter, monthly Q&A streams, and more! Also, we'd like to thank you all for listening and for supporting the show.
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Ep 684 - Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher
6 januari 2025 · 59 min
In this award-winning novella, T. Kingfisher asks, "What if you DIDN'T want to wake Sleeping Beauty?" The protagonist Toadling is most certainly not the princess in question. She is, however, an "interesting, but sad" fae creature who tells her tale with a moving mix of warmth and tragedy. Lees meer
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Ep 683 - The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot
30 december 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
Imagine waking up one day to find out that you're the heir to the throne of a tiny fictional European country. Now imagine that, after that, you still need to navigate the choppy waters of high school! Also you're flunking Algebra, which has somehow created an opening for your teacher to date your mom. Oh no! Lees meer
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Ep 682 - A Mafia Mistress for Christmas, by Brooke Harper
23 december 2024 · 1 uur 14 min
For this year's Happy Hornydays celebration, we go under the covers undercover with the FBI on a fast-paced mission to infiltrate the Zicari Crime Syndicate. This steamy little novella is more criminal than Christmas, but it still makes for a fun conversation about professionalism, brotherhood, and limousine intimacy. Lees meer
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Ep 681 - Neuromancer, by William Gibson
16 december 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
It's time to jack in and try to decode one of the ur-texts of cyberpunk: William Gibson's Neuromancer. It's got everything you'd expect from a cyberpunk story (hackers, cybernetic enhancements, malevolent AI constructs) while also being the one of the reasons you have those expectations in the first place! Lees meer
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Ep 680 - Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
9 december 2024 · 1 uur 22 min
Ironically this week we are succumbing to gravity, reading the book that is the source material for a musical that is the source material for a pair of major motion pictures. But if the musical or movie Wicked led you to the book Wicked, we are here to tell you: these things are not the same! Lees meer
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Ep 679 - The Seagull, by Anton Chekhov
2 december 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
What if a play didn't need a "plot" to move you? What if all it needed was a gun on a wall and a bunch of artists besot with unrequired love? That is what Chekhov's The Seagull accomplishes. Lees meer
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Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 09 & 10 (Books 20-24)
30 november 2024 · 1 uur 53 min
It's the conclusion of our show-within-a-show dedicated to Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We read it a few books at a time and had a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. This episode covers Books 20-24. Lees meer
Episode 09: Everybody's "favorite" guy Achillies is finally back on the battlefield! The gods want this to go smoothly, so they step into the fray themselves. But Achilles isn't sparing ANYONE. Even a nearby river is getting messed up! Then we are finally given the main event: Achilles v. Hector. And wouldn't you know, another hero bites the dust.
Episode 10: The grand finale of Stop! Homer Time and of the Iliad itself. First, some big boys play some small games, and then two sworn enemies briefly share a moment of grief and admiration, even as their eventual doom hangs over them both.
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Ep 678 - The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
25 november 2024 · 1 uur 18 min
Sing, goddess, of the creativity of Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles. This romance/war history deftly combines the existing canon of Greek epic and myth with a moving story about young Patroclus and his love Achilles. We read a lot of myth this year (including The Iliad) so we have a lot of feelings! Lees meer
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Ep 677 - No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai
18 november 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
Misanthropy, anxiety, and societal alienation? In this economy?? This week's book and author aren't the most uplifting podcast subjects we've ever covered, but our discussion ended up being an oddly cathartic way to help process election results and the feelings downstream from election results. Lees meer
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Ep 676 - The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
11 november 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
The Wind in the Willows is a classic novel for young readers. But, uh, why? Is it the animals that are basically just Edwardian gentlemen? Is it the deep longing for a nostalgic pastoral past? Is it the friend who is addicted to cars?! Surely, these are all universal childhood experiences. Lees meer
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Ep 675 - The Kid Who Ran For President, by Dan Gutman
4 november 2024 · 1 uur 46 min
It's election season here in the US (please go vote if you're reading this on November 4th or 5th)! And to uh "celebrate" we have chosen to put together a one-hour-and-forty-five-minute episode on Dan Gutman's 1996 book The Kid Who Ran For President, a book that is pretty wild and only made wilder by Scholastic's characteristic late-00s-early-10s stealth updates that "modernize" the text while leaving everything about the story's context totally unchanged. Lees meer
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Ep 674 - The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris
28 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
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 Lambs, which (along with its hugely successful film adaptation) helped to establish a lot of tropes currently *baked* in to how we tell stories about terrible crimes (whether True Crime or fiction). Scrumptious! Lees meer
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Ep 673 - I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
21 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
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 than the 2007 Will Smith adaptation. Lees meer
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Ep 672 - Nothing but Blackened Teeth, by Cassandra Khaw
14 oktober 2024 · 52 min
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 flashy little novella about yokai, spooky weddings, and releasing one’s inhibitions. Lees meer
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Ep 666 - Tender Is The Flesh, by Augustina Bazterrica
7 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 1 min
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 between how Special Meat is treated and how real-world non-special meat is treated?? Also we deal with the spookiness of a protagonist who Sucks. Lees meer
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Sit Me Baby One More Time Episode 0 - The Baby-Sitters Club, an Introduction
5 oktober 2024 · 39 min
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 meet new Club members. Lees meer
This episode is a free teaser for our Sit Me Baby One More Time longread project. Patreon supporters can get new episodes monthly (Episode 1 is up right now!), but the rest won't unlock on the main feed until months after the whole series has wrapped! For more information on how to get these episodes as they are released, head to patreon.com/overduepod.
In this episode, you'll hear us discuss the background of The Baby-Sitters Club and author Ann M. Martin.
The full series reading list:
Kristy's Great Idea
Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls
The Truth about Stacey
Mary Anne Saves the Day
Dawn and the Impossible Three
Hello, Mallory
Jessi's Secret Language
Welcome to the BSC, Abby
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Ep 671 - The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
30 september 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
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 blank slate that is [dramatic music] the English patient. Lees meer
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Ep 670 - Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (Novelization), by Tracey West (Bonus Episode)
28 september 2024 · 1 uur 16 min
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 the most successful media franchise in the world: Pokémon. Lees meer
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Ep 669 - A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
23 september 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
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 of the story that is missing its last chapter. Burgess wants us all to know that he'd disown this story if he could, but if we're going to read it, we might as well get the ending as originally intended. Lees meer
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Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 7 & 8 (Books 15-19)
21 september 2024 · 1 uur 45 min
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 a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. These two episodes cover Books 15-19 Lees meer
Episode 7: Things start heating up in books 15 and 16, as Achilles finally sort of acknowledges that there's a war on and Patroclus rides out to meet his fate.
Episode 8: Now that we've bid Patroclus goodbye, it's time to fight over his body! The Trojans and Greeks scramble to control the fallen hero and the borrowed armor he wore. Achilles is heartbroken at the news and resolves to enact revenge. His mom overnights him some dope armor. Some horses cry and then give Achillies lip.
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Ep 668 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
16 september 2024 · 1 uur 6 min
Are you in your prime? If you were, would you know it? And would you know what to do with it?! Miss Jean Brodie's in her prime, and she's going to teach all these girls about art history, being the creme de la creme, and how Mussolini made the trains run on time. Tune in for a story about how teachers can have a huge impact on your life while still remaining mysterious in their motivations. Lees meer
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Ep 667 - The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood
9 september 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
In The Odyssey, Penelope is mostly a side character who exists to be faithful to Odysseus (and clever enough to be compatible with him). Atwood's Penelopiad asks: what was Penelope up to? What did she want? What if the Homeric version of Odysseus' story isn't the true one? And what if Penelope's version isn't either? Lees meer
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Ep 665 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy
2 september 2024 · 1 uur 4 min
In this classic novella, Leo Tolstoy asks, "What would it take for a guy who stinks to realize he stinks? And how would he feel about that at the end of his life?" Lees meer
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Ep 664 - The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5), by Rick Riordan
26 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 21 min
And so the (initial) story of the world of Percy Jackson draws to a close. It's time to discuss the Battle of New York, the resolution of a prophecy, and the ultimate theme(s) of Riordan's blockbuster series. Lees meer
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Ep 663 - The Magic School Bus, by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
19 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 7 min
The Magic School Bus series, beloved of 80s and 90s kids as both a book series and a TV show, depicts a school where every day is a field trip and every field trip is actually a fantastical voyage through time and space. I don't want to think what these permission slips look like. Lees meer
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Ep 662 - Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami
12 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
The book that put Murakami on the map in Japan is an intimate tale about youth, love, sex, and grief. So it's not surprise he settled on a Beatles song for his novel's title?? Lees meer
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Ep 661 - Into the Wild (Warrior Cats #1), by Erin Hunter
5 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
Hello, cats and kittypets! If you're up for a Redwall-y, Watership Down-y exploration of warrior cat societies and territorial conflicts, boy do we have the dozens and dozens of books for you! Lees meer
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Ep 660 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
29 juli 2024 · 1 uur 1 min
Communities collide in the Chicken Hill neighborhood of 1930s Pottstown. Will the tensions become more than this town can manage? Since this is a James McBride novel, probably not! His work is characterized by a warmth of spirit that feels optimistic without naivete. So it shouldn't surprised you that folks of different backgrounds are finding common cause on all sorts of things - like how cool it is they all call somebody Big Soap. Lees meer
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Ep 659 - Beach Read, by Emily Henry
22 juli 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
Emily Henry's Beach Read is a romance novel that's light on the romance, and also on beaches and reading. But it's still fun! An a good argument against aggressively pigeonholing books or their authors into any given genre box. Lees meer
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Ep 658 - Garfield: His 9 Lives, by Jim Davis (Bonus Episode)
20 juli 2024 · 1 uur 17 min
Garfield creator Jim Davis decided to turn his PAWS, Inc. artists loose on multiple interpretations of our favorite orange feline. Behold, a truly absurd collection of tails -- I mean, tales. Lees meer
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Ep 657 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
15 juli 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
Caw caw! Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a New Age messiah. Or is it? All we know is that this seagull loves to fly and craves perfection -- which is somehow an allegory for self-improvement? Lees meer
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Ep 656 - Thérèse Raquin, by Émile Zola
8 juli 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
This podcast is about to REAL! In that we are about to talk about Realism and Naturalism, two things we definitely have an amazing handle on. And did Émile Zola have a handle on them in his notable novel Thérèse Raquin? Tune in to find out. Lees meer
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Ep 655 - Heartburn, by Nora Ephron
1 juli 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
Nora Ephron is known mainly for her films, but her voice comes through loud and clear in Heartburn, a thinly-veiled autobiographical novel about love and divorce and how much she doesn't like Washington DC. Lees meer
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Ep 654 - Spy for George Washington (Choose Your Own Adventure), by Jay Leibold
24 juni 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
You find yourself facing a cherry tree. Is it on the level? Is it secretly plotting revenge against the President? Make a choice and dive into this revolutionary tale. Lees meer
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Ep 653 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
17 juni 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
To celebrate Bloomsday (however inadvertently), we decided to make our first foray in the work of James Joyce. His debut novel riffs on themes and characters that feature prominently in the rest of his canon, so join us for a discussion of modernist novel structure, semi-autobiographical lyricism, and what you should run off to smell if you find yourself crying in front of your family. Lees meer
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Ep 652 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
10 juni 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
Sometimes you read a book from 1940 and you get a little upset about how relevant its characters and themes remain more than 80 years later. Sometimes! McCullers' debut novel explores capitalism, alienation, and poverty in the American South at the tail end of the Great Depression. Lees meer
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