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Ep 474 - Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers
17 mei 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
It's disorienting to read the tenth book in a longrunning detective fiction series without reading any of the books that came before, but Gaudy Night is noteworthy because its heroine Harriet Vane is a precursor to many many women found in today's mystery novels. Just come prepared for the romantic parts and the parts about English high society that all make it take longer to figure out who did the crimes. Lees meer
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Ep 473 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
10 mei 2021 · 1 uur 5 min
Tom Sawyer, a 19th-century amalgam of Zack Morris and Dennis the Menace, has much to teach us about the joys of boyhood and adventure in the pre-Civil War United States. Twain, by extension, has plenty to teach us about racial stereotypes and how they can bog down even the most charming of adventure stories. Lees meer
Check out our previous Mark Twain episode on The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
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Ep 472 - Lost Cat, by Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton (Bonus Episode)
7 mei 2021 · 1 uur 9 min
April's bonus episode uses Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton’s illustrated sort-of-memoir Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology as a springboard to talk about being a Cat Person, loss, pandemic brain, and the fact that more books for adults should be illustrated. Lees meer
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Ep 471 - Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
3 mei 2021 · 1 uur 8 min
What is Pippi Longstocking? A precocious nine-year-old child with a healthy disregard for The System? A Terminator? An elder god who dabbles in mortal affairs, eternally developing tests for us and finding us wanting? The answer might be "all of the above. Lees meer
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Ep 470 - The Tiger's Wife, by Téa Obreht
26 april 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
Téa Obreht's award-winning debut novel is about a doctor in a war-torn Balkan country, piecing together her grandfather's life one story at a time. Is it a magical realism? Is it mostly about animals? Is it surprisingly resonant with our Current Societal Moment™? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this week's episode. Lees meer
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Ep 469 - Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
19 april 2021 · 59 min
Join us as we journey down a dark corridor to a parallel world where we are friends and host a book podcast together but our eyes are shiny black buttons and we give you a vaguely uneasy feeling when we invite you to listen to us... forever. Lees meer
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Feed Drop: The History of Literature - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
15 april 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
This isn't an episode of Overdue, it's a Feed Drop! We wanted to share with you an episode of The History of Literature, a podcast about great stories and why we love them. Lees meer
To use host Jacke Wilson's words, the show "takes a fresh look at some of the most compelling examples of creative genius the world has ever known." It's brought to you by the folks at the Podglomerate.
You can find more info on The History of Literature here.
And don't worry, there'll still be a regularly scheduled episode of Overdue on Monday. But in the meantime, enjoy listening to this discussion of this classic Russian novel!
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Ep 468 - The Mouse and the Motorcycle, by Beverly Cleary
12 april 2021 · 56 min
Clearly it is time we covered Beverly Cleary! In addition to her numerous books starring Ramona Quimby, the late titan of children's fiction penned several novels about a mouse named Ralph who rides a motorcycle. Not quite sure what else you need to know, to be honest. There's a kid named Keith. He and Ralph become friends. Also, we solve the energy crisis thanks to Ralph's motorcycle. Lees meer
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Ep 467 - Farthing, by Jo Walton
5 april 2021 · 1 uur 3 min
"What if the Axis Powers won World War II?" is one of the most-asked questions in all of speculative fiction, but Jo Walton's Farthing asks "what if Britain didn't exactly LOSE World War II, but ended up sliding into fascism anyway?" Lees meer
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Feed Drop: Storybound - "Copperopolis" by Tommy Orange
1 april 2021 · 30 min
This isn't an episode of Overdue, it's a Feed Drop! We wanted to share with you an episode of Storybound featuring Tommy Orange reading his short story "Copperopolis" with sound design by Ryan Dann. Lees meer
Storybound is a radio theater program from the folks at Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate. Each episode is a chance to hear a contemporary author read their own work, designed with immersive sound environments.
You can find more info on Storybound here, and you can read more about the author and composer here.
And don't worry, there'll still be a regularly scheduled episode of Overdue on Monday. But in the meantime, enjoy listening to a professional writer professionally read their own words!
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Ep 466 - Ash, by Malinda Lo
29 maart 2021 · 1 uur
What if Cinderella didn't fall for Prince Charming? What if she developed a rich, endearing relationship with the King's Huntress instead? Malinda Lo's retelling of Cinderella blends cultural traditions and remixes key tropes, but also remains true to the folk tale's reverence for love and magic. Lees meer
(Listen, the big boat was floated while we were recording this episode. Our jokes were timely when we made them.)
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Jagged Little Mill, a Don Quixote miniseries - Episodes 1 & 2
26 maart 2021 · 1 uur 30 min
Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. Lees meer
These episodes cover Chapters 1-14.
In Episode 1, we do some table-setting on the author and translation, and then we dive into the first four chapters of the story. In Episode 2, our hero recruits the squire Sancho Panza and goes tilting after some windmills. Also we hear a whole story about a guy who died from lovesickness.
Join us as we meet this errant knight-errant!
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Ep 465 - On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality #1), by Piers Anthony
22 maart 2021 · 58 min
What if Death was a job, that a guy did? On a Pale Horse has an interesting theology and viewpoint on morality, even if the book's women characters are paper-thin and Piers Anthony is kind of a jabroni. Lees meer
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Ep 464 - The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander
15 maart 2021 · 52 min
It's time to post at the top of the key and shoot some literary hoops! Pick and roll with us into a poetic novel about brotherhood, family, and passing the rock. Alexander's poetry in The Crossover is eclectic and energetic, which makes for a fun read whether you stan LeBron James or Nikki Giovanni or both! Lees meer
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Ep 463 - Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
8 maart 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
We don't actually get to the center of the earth this week, but we do TRY to get there, and that has made all the difference. Fans of Craig's French accent get a lot to chew on in this one. Lees meer
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Ep 462 - Overdue Q&A #4 (Bonus Episode)
5 maart 2021 · 1 uur 12 min
It's been a couple of years, so we figured it was time for another listener Q&A! This time we tackle hard-hitting questions like "what kind of books does your baby like" and "what is the best pasta shape." Lees meer
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Ep 461 - The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery
1 maart 2021 · 59 min
What if the celebrated author of a classic children's novel wanted to write about Adult issues like spinsterhood, pariah-hood, and being told you only have a year to live? L.M. Montgomery asked this question of herself as she sat down to write The Blue Castle. Join us for a discussion of obnoxious families, fairy tales, and botched diagnoses. Lees meer
Check out our previous L.M. Montgomery episode on Anne of Green Gables.
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Ep 460 - A Promised Land, by Barack Obama (w/ Kamille Washington)
22 februari 2021 · 1 uur 37 min
Returning guest Kamille Washington joins us this week to chat about A Promised Land, the first in former President Barack Obama's (planned) two-part presidential autobiography. We talk about the functions these books serve, both for the writer and the reader, and whether this book's recounting of Obama's early presidency squares with our experience with and memory of it a decade later (apologies to our listeners without a working knowledge of US politics, this one might be a little inaccessible). Lees meer
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Ep 459 - The Stone Sky (Broken Earth #3), by N.K. Jemisin
15 februari 2021 · 1 uur 3 min
N.K. Jemisin's award-winning Broken Earth trilogy concludes with two powerful magic users trying to harness the moon to bring about an apocalypse to end all apocalypses. We discuss how this book decides to stick its landing, including the impressive detour it takes to do an audacious amount of world-building for a closing entry in a series. Lees meer
Just coming to the series now? Check out our episodes on the previous books: The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate.
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Ep 458 - The Ziggurat, by Gene Wolfe
8 februari 2021 · 1 uur
Gene Wolfe is a sci-fi author's sci-fi author, best known for his descriptive language and a penchant for unreliable narrators. To attempt to discover the REAL meaning of The Ziggurat, we take a break in the middle of this episode to read the story again. It only sort of helps. Lees meer
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Ep 457 - The Comet by W.E.B. Dubois and Woeful Tales from Mahigul by Ursula K. Le Guin
1 februari 2021 · 1 uur
We're celebrating the fiction-filled and fictional holiday of Short Story Week by sharing two short stories with y'all this week. First up is The Comet, a speculative sci-fi tale by civil rights activist and writer W.E.B. DuBois from his collection Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. After that is Woeful Tales from Mahigul, a short story collection within a short story collection by Ursula K. Le Guin from her collection Changing Planes. Lees meer
Check out our previous LeGuin episodes on The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and The Dispossessed.
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Ep 456 - The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant, by Michel Tremblay
25 januari 2021 · 52 min
It's time to read a prominent work by a preeminent Canadian (specifically Québécois) author! Join us in Montreal in 1942 and meet a family with lots of problems but lots of heart. Lees meer
Tremblay's known for insightful and whimsical character work, so it's fitting that we spend the bulk of the episode delving into the novel's deep roster of memorable characters. Also Canadian history is pretty interesting!
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Ep 455 - Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1), by Ann Leckie
18 januari 2021 · 57 min
Ancillary Justice is a novel take on sci-fi's "collective consciousness" trope. What if, when cut off from the rest of its collective, an individual member of a collective consciousness just went on existing as an individual? And also what if they were thrust into the center of high-stakes intergalactic political drama? Lees meer
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Ep 454 - The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth #2), by N.K. Jemisin
11 januari 2021 · 1 uur
The second entry in N.K. Jemisin's award-winning Broken Earth series is centered on a mother/daughter pair of magic users, each learning new ways to use their abilities to heal their shattered world. It is, of course, the second book in a planned trilogy, so we discuss how well it sets up events that will be delivered on in the next book. Lees meer
Just coming to the series now? Check out our episode on the first book: The Fifth Season.
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Ep 453 - 'Twas the Knife Before Christmas, by Jacqueline Frost (Bonus Episode)
8 januari 2021 · 1 uur 15 min
It's a bit late, but this year we trade a sexy holiday book for a murder mystery holiday book. After a local businessman/pervert turns up dead, it's up to Holly White and her friends in the town of Mistletoe, Maine to figure out who did it and to clear her best friend's name. Lees meer
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Ep 452 - Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
4 januari 2021 · 58 min
It's not referenced as often as George Orwell's 1984, but Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is in some ways a dystopia that's closer to our current reality: a society modeled around a production line, designed to pacify its citizenry while maximizing consumption in whatever way possible. Or maybe that's just our read on it!! Lees meer
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Genie Babies, a One Thousand and One Nights miniseries - Episode 7
31 december 2020 · 59 min
Welcome to the finale of Genie Babies, a magic carpet ride of a podcast from the boys here at Overdue! On this show-within-a-show, we're reading Husain Haddawy's translation of Muhsin Mahdi's manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights (also known by its westernized title, The Arabian Nights). Lees meer
Some Patreon supporters get these episodes early, but we always release them for general consumption later on. In this closing episode, we share stories we've yet to discuss as well as some not included in our edition.
Stories covered include: Aladdin, Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves, the Story of the Golden Apples, and more.
Programming note: keep an eye on our social feeds for the announcement of our next longread project.
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Ep 451 - Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell
28 december 2020 · 1 uur 6 min
"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember." Lees meer
Maggie O'Farrell's prize-winning novel Hamnet is one of remembrance -- a work of historical fiction about guilt, loss, and the people who live in the margins of a Great Author's biography. Come to marvel at how skillfully O'Farrell shunts William Shakespeare off-stage, stick around for the randy apple storage scene.
Thank you all for listening to our show this year!
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Ep 450 - The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
21 december 2020 · 57 min
Hey dicks and dames, this week we ankle down to the hoosegow to talk about Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. You better hope we can finish talking about it before we get our clocks punched! Lees meer
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Ep 449 - Never Tell, by Selena Montgomery (w/ Sophie Brookover)
14 december 2020 · 1 uur 6 min
Our friend Sophie Brookover (co-author of Two Bossy Dames) joins us this week to discuss Never Tell, a romantic thriller written under a nom de plume by prominent politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams. It's about a talented criminal psychologist trying to move on from a violent past and the reporter she falls for after that past catches up with her. Lees meer
Learn more about Stacey Abrams and her work in Georgia at fairfight.com.
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Ep 448 - Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente
7 december 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
If you're into really focused, plot-driven fantasy, the vague and dreamy world of Palimpsest might not be for you. But if you're into people made out of bees and horny trains that adhere to no schedule but their own, you might just be able to spend a few nights there. Lees meer
Note: this episode bears the Explicit tag because we do talk about some Adult Situations.
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Genie Babies, a One Thousand and One Nights miniseries - Episodes 5 & 6
4 december 2020 · 1 uur 32 min
Welcome to another episode of Genie Babies, a magic carpet ride of a podcast from the boys here at Overdue! On this show-within-a-show, we're reading Husain Haddawy's translation of Muhsin Mahdi's manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights (also known by its westernized title, The Arabian Nights). Lees meer
Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. In the first half, you'll hear us discuss what misfortunates befall a beloved hunchback and the stories his assailants use to save themselves. In the second, we meet a garrulous barber and his many unfortunate brothers.
Stories covered in Nights 102-170 include: The Story of the Hunchback Parts 1 & 2, which include tales from several subjects of the King of China and a barber who won't shut up.
Programming note: this is our penultimate episode of Genie Babies. Our next and final installment will be a mix of closing thoughts and stories we didn't have time to cover.
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Ep 447 - The Graduate, by Charles Webb
30 november 2020 · 59 min
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our podcast turns its lonely ears to you. Woo-woo-ooo Lees meer
The Graduate is a story about the ennuied Benjamin Braddock, the provocative Mrs. Robinson, and the affair they embark upon that upends their lives. The iconic 1967 film adaptation is perhaps more famous than Webb's book, but the novel does contain all of the classic lines and moments you remember. Even the wedding and the bus at the end!
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Ep 446 - The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
23 november 2020 · 59 min
The Buried Giant is a sort of inversion of a typical fantasy novel - instead of a young person setting out to change the world, we get some aging heroes at the end of the Arthurian era trying to decide how everything is going to wind down. Lees meer
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Ep 445 - Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks
16 november 2020 · 56 min
This Pulitzer Prize-winning play is about two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, and the elaborate con that is their shared history. Tune in for a conversation about Suzan-Lori Parks' place in American theater, some patter from the street game three-card monte, and the open question that haunts your hosts: who is top dog of Overdue? Lees meer
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Ep 444 - Charmed Life (Chrestomanci #1), by Diana Wynne Jones
9 november 2020 · 55 min
Is Chrestomanci a type of magic? A government office? A person? Find out in the first of Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci novels. Join us for a discussion of the nine-lived Cat and his sister Gwendolyn, magical pranks, and mystical multiverses. Lees meer
Looking for more DWJ? Check out Ep 201 - Howl's Moving Castle.
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Ep 443 - Lovecraft Country, by Matt Ruff (Bonus Episode)
6 november 2020 · 1 uur 10 min
Matt Ruff's 2016 novel about two Black families fighting the forces of evil riffs on Lovecraftian fiction by focusing in on the cosmic horror that is America's racist past, present, and future. We dive into each of the interconnected stories and spend some time comparing the overall vibe to that of HBO's recent TV adaptation. Lees meer
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Ep 442 - The Last Wish (Introducing The Witcher), by Andrzej Sapkowski
2 november 2020 · 1 uur 4 min
Geralt of Rivia is a witcher, which means he travels the realm witching. What does that mean exactly? It's a little unclear! But Sapkowksi's protagonist and the world he inhabits have proven popular enough to warrant several novels, videogames, and screen adaptations. Toss a coin to your podcast, why don'tcha? Lees meer
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Ep 441 - Demon Theory, by Stephen Graham Jones
26 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 6 min
If you wanted more of your books to be metatextual pseudo-screenplays then Demon Theory is for you! If you do not want your books to be that, however, Demon Theory may not be for you. Lees meer
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Ep 440 - The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
19 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 5 min
The Opera's alive with the sound of music! It's time to dive into the serialized story-slash-novel that spawned one of the most successful musicals of all time. (The one by Andrew Lloyd Webber, maybe you've heard of it?) Lees meer
It's pretty different, it seems?
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Ep 439 - Revenge of the Russian Ghost (Choose Your Own Adventure), by Jay Leibold
12 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 26 min
This week we choose to travel to Mother Russia to make jingoistic jokes and hang out with Rasputin, every 90s kid's favorite historical figure! Not sure what's going on with the voices in this one. Lees meer
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Ep 438 - Midnight Sun (A Twilight Novel), by Stephenie Meyer
5 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 21 min
Welcome to Spooktober 2020! What's scarier than a story about a teenage girl who falls in with a family of vampires? 160 more pages than the original story and it's all from the sad vampire boy's perspective! Lees meer
Meyer's companion novel to the original Twilight reminds us what we did and didn't like about the series, as well as fleshes out a bit of the story from Edward's gleaming eyes. But, really, it's just very long.
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Genie Babies, a One Thousand and One Nights miniseries - Episodes 3 & 4
2 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 42 min
Welcome to another episode of Genie Babies, a magic carpet ride of a podcast from the boys here at Overdue! On this show-within-a-show, we're reading Husain Haddawy's translation of Muhsin Mahdi's manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights (also known by its westernized title, The Arabian Nights). Lees meer
Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. In the first half, you'll hear us discuss the beginning of a "wacky" night with three sisters and their houseguests. In the second, we'll conclude the tales of the dervishes and get to the bottom of some magic mysteries.
Stories covered in Nights 28-69 include: The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies, which includes tales from three dervishes, two ladies, and a nosy caliph.
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Ep 437 - Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, et al
28 september 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
This week we answer the question on everyone's minds: why, the last man? This mid-2000s graphic novel imagines a world without men, a specific kind of apocalypse with a different flavor from The Leftovers or other "what if X suddenly disappeared from Earth forever" fiction. Lees meer
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Ep 436 - How Much of These Hills Is Gold, by C Pam Zhang
21 september 2020 · 1 uur
C Pam Zhang's Booker Prize-listed debut novel focuses on a family of Chinese immigrants working coal mines, panning streams, and laying railroads in the American West. Her characters, myth-making, and lyrical style work to correct the historical record with specificity and humanity. Lees meer
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Ep 435 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon
14 september 2020 · 1 uur 9 min
Michael Chabon's 2007 alternate history novel is a murder mystery featuring a hard-boiled detective, though neither the detective nor the murder mystery are the most memorable parts of it. The alternate history part, along with Chabon's prose, are enough to make up for whatever other shortcomings the novel might have. Lees meer
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Ep 434 - Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
7 september 2020 · 1 uur
What if all we knew about alien culture was their garbage? Or is it their garbage? The Strugatsky brothers' most famous novel is about a world where stalkers crawl through hazardous Zones for precious artifacts. Also it's about hope, bureaucracy, and our relationship to the unknown. Lees meer
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Ep 433 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0), by Suzanne Collins (Bonus Episode)
4 september 2020 · 1 uur 25 min
We just couldn't resist another trip to Panem! This origin story for the trilogy's primary villain, Coriolanus Snow, takes us all the way back to the 10th Annual Hunger Games. Things are a little less flashy, but no less deadly. Struggle along with us through the hunger, through the games, and through the limits of fiction told through the antagonist's eyes. Lees meer
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Ep 432 - Harvey, by Mary Chase
31 augustus 2020 · 58 min
Join us and our possibly imaginary gigantic anthropomorphic rabbit for a discussion about a play that just HAPPENS to be about a man who is friends with a possibly imaginary gigantic anthropomorphic rabbit. Funny how that works out! Lees meer
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Ep 431 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
24 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
We've all heard that a tree grows in Brooklyn. But what ELSE grows there? A love of reading? A bootstraps narrative? We get to the root of the mystery this week on Overdue. Lees meer
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