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Ep 430 - Eggs, by Jerry Spinelli
17 augustus 2020 · 54 min
Eggs is a book that has eggs in it, but also adolescent pain and friendship. Eggs! Lees meer
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Ep 429 - Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver
10 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 2 min
Lauren Oliver's first novel is about a teenage girl forced to relive the last day of her life over and over again. What can she change? What should she change? And how will she change? Find out the answers to those questions and more (namely, how all time loop fiction is beholden to the 1993 film Groundhog Day) in this week's episode. Lees meer
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Ep 428 - Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi
3 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 9 min
Children of Blood and Bone takes familiar fantasy tropes and puts them in a new context, which makes them unexpectedly poignant and powerful. Lees meer
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Genie Babies, a One Thousand and One Nights miniseries - Episodes 1 & 2
1 augustus 2020 · 1 uur 58 min
Welcome to Genie Babies, a magic carpet ride of a podcast from the boys here at Overdue! On our newest 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 some of the background scholarship as well as the stories that setup the collection. In the second, we'll dive deeper into some nested tales where demons truly thrive. In both halves, we'll grapple with the heaping helpings of misogyny that accompany these wild tales!
Stories covered in Nights 1-27 include: The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Visier's Daughter; The Story of the Merchant and the Demon; and The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon, which includes tales about King Yunan, a talking parrot, a She-Ghoul, and a stony prince.
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Ep 427 - Deacon King Kong, by James McBride
27 juli 2020 · 1 uur 2 min
Everything happens for a reason in James McBride's new novel. It's September of 1969 and a doddering Brooklyn deacon just shot the neighborhood's top drug dealer. The events set in motion touch every member of the community - from its 102-year-old founder to the fire ants in the boiler room - and help them build a future as the world changes around them. Lees meer
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Ep 426 - The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector
20 juli 2020 · 1 uur 4 min
Can our podcast truly capture the depth of a renowned Brazilian novelist's final work? This question mirrors one asked by the narrator of The Hour of the Star, whose attempts to portray a young woman's pitiable existence are hindered by his fears that he will never do her story justice. Lees meer
Also, Craig talks into a sock.
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Ep 425 - Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3), by Suzanne Collins
13 juli 2020 · 1 uur 33 min
The Games may have ended, but we're still hungry! We travel back to Panem for the close of Collins' trilogy about Katniss, Peeta, and revolution. It's time to talk (a)political messages, rickety love triangles, the limits of a hero's POV. Lees meer
If you aren't caught up on our Hunger Games journey, go give Episode 400 or Episode 410 a listen!
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Ep 424 - My Sister the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
6 juli 2020 · 56 min
Sometimes a book is about exactly what it says on the cover. Oyinkan Braithwaite's debut novel is plenty dark but surprisingly funny, exploring sibling dynamics heightened by the fact that there is serial killing involved. Lees meer
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Ep 423 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, by Steve Brusatte (Bonus Episode)
3 juli 2020 · 1 uur 13 min
Craig loves dinosaurs, so Andrew let him talk for an hour about Steve Brusatte's recent book for dino devotees. Time to talk T-Rexes, Sauropods, and graphic depictions of the end of the world with our live Patreon chat. Lees meer
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Ep 422 - An Unseen Attraction, by KJ Charles (w/ Margaret H. Willison)
29 juni 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
Special guest Margaret H. Willison joins us this week to talk about the consensual, gay, historically accurate romance novels of KJ Charles. Lees meer
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Ep 421 - The Vegetarian, by Han Kang
22 juni 2020 · 58 min
How could a dream upend your life? Would you stop eating meat? Embark on a ruinous affair? Desert your family? Lees meer
Han Kang's The Vegetarian asks visceral questions about our capacity for violence and what'd be willing to give up to be rid of it.
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Ep 420 - Candide, by Voltaire
15 juni 2020 · 46 min
Candide is a novella-length takedown of the idea that we are living in the best of all possible worlds, as ordained by God. These days it's hard to believe we need a whole book about this but it's pretty funny anyway? Lees meer
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Ep 419 - Inferno, by Dan Brown (HELLBOYS Bonus Episode)
8 juni 2020 · 1 uur 30 min
Noted symbologist Robert Langdon has to "solve" a "mystery" that "references" Dante's Inferno! Let's see if he can crack the clues before the whole world succumbs to a transhumanist disease (yes, that's a real sentence that makes real sense.) For context, this was originally released in late May for some of our Patreon supporters. Lees meer
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Ep 418 - Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
1 juni 2020 · 56 min
This week we read an (1) explicitly autobiographical (2) non-fiction (3) graphic novel, things we don't usually do! But we try to have a useful discussion anyway. This episode, like most of our shows, does not pass the Bechdel Test. Lees meer
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HELLBOYS, a Divine Comedy miniseries - Episode 11
29 mei 2020 · 57 min
Welcome to the last official installment of HELLBOYS, a Divine Comedy podcast from the boys here at Overdue! On this episode, we wrap up our journey through Robert and Jean Hollander's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Lees meer
Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every other month we release them for general consumption. This episode carries us to the end where we meet a Who's Who of Biblical heroes and stare directly into the face of God (Paradiso XXVIII-XXXIII). Then it's time to reflect on our ascension from Hellboys to Heavenlads.
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Ep 417 - Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
25 mei 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
Jhumpa Lahiri's second short story collection focuses on the experiences of second- and third-generation Bengali-Americans, people caught between the futures they're trying to build and the pasts they're trying to honor. Her direct, compelling writing style makes these slices of life particularly affecting, as do the characters and the misfortunes that befall them. Lees meer
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Ep 416 - Orlando: A Biography, by Virginia Woolf
18 mei 2020 · 1 uur 8 min
Orlando is an English nobleman in the 16th century who, by the end the Woolf's tongue-in-cheek biography of the character, is an English noblewoman in the 20th century. It's quite a journey for all involved! Lees meer
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Ep 415 - My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, by Fredrik Backman
11 mei 2020 · 58 min
My grandmother asked me to tell you about this podcast. It's about a book by Swedish author Fredrik Backman, and it's about a precocious young girl named Elsa and her quest to deliver her Granny's letters of apology. Lees meer
It's a fairy tale - of sorts. It's also a story about coming to grips with the world's complications, with the ways in which we are all more than we appear at first glance, and with grief.
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Ep 414 - Llama Llama Red Pajama (Series), by Anna Dewdney
4 mei 2020 · 1 uur
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On a podcast with his mama!
We read llama books to kids
To make them close their small eyelids.
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Ep 413 - Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, by Donald J. Sobol (Bonus Episode)
1 mei 2020 · 59 min
What's a boy to do when his dad is the bumbling Chief of Police? Solve crimes, of course! Join us as we solve The Mystery of How Donald J. Sobol Wrote Detective Fiction for Kids! Lees meer
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Ep 412 - A Death in the Family, by James Agee
27 april 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
Fair warning: this book's a bit of a bummer! Agee's autobiographical A Death in the Family centers on the aftermath of the automobile accident that took his father's life in 1915. It's a poetic exploration of grief and trauma -- which may not be everyone's cup of tea these days! Ways we try to lighten the mood include: It's a Wonderful Life musings, Andrew's Heavenly Dogs, and a bunch of words that Craig may or may not have made up. Lees meer
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Ep 411 - Smoke Jumpers (Choose Your Own Adventure) by R.A. Montgomery
20 april 2020 · 1 uur 25 min
For this, the highest of holy days, we've revisited the Choose Your Own Adventure-verse with R.A. Montgomery's Smoke Jumpers. Come for the information about what it's like to be a trainee firefighter, stay for the ranger who sounds a whole lot like Strong Bad. Lees meer
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Ep 410 - Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2), by Suzanne Collins
13 april 2020 · 1 uur 18 min
The arena calls our name again, and we must volunteer as tribute! It's time we talked about Suzanne Collins' second novel about the dystopic land of Panem and their annual Hunger Games. Tune in for a discussion of revolution, game design, and underbaked love triangles. Plus, Andrew goes a-Googlin'! Lees meer
If you aren't caught up on our Hunger Games journey, go give Episode 400 a listen!
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HELLBOYS, a Divine Comedy miniseries - Episodes 9 & 10
11 april 2020 · 1 uur 32 min
Welcome to another installment of HELLBOYS, a Divine Comedy podcast from the boys here at Overdue! We're continuing our journey through Robert and Jean Hollander's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy a few cantos at a time. Lees meer
Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we combine them for general consumption. This combo episode carries us further into space where we meet some friars and Dante's grandpa (Paradiso X-XVIII) before inching closer and closer to God (Paradiso XIX-XXVII). We argue about God, learn about love, and cower before a giant eagle.
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Ep 409 - The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
6 april 2020 · 1 uur 8 min
The Shadow of the Wind is a complex noir-ish mystery set in post-WWII (and post-Spanish Civil War) Barcelona. Come for the endearing characters, stay for the Byzantine explanation of what is going on! Lees meer
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Ep 408 - The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight #1), by Katherine Arden
30 maart 2020 · 1 uur
Katherine Arden's debut novel is a potent mix of Slavic folklore, Russian history, and good old-fashioned fantasy. We dig into which of those ingredients work best within the scope of The Bear and the Nightingale's story, but first we take a moment to debut Andrew's new classic catchphrase. Lees meer
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Ep 407 - Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
23 maart 2020 · 55 min
When Andrew read The Colour of Magic, people suggested that the beginning of the Discworld series was not necessarily the best place to start. Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in the series, is the start of its own contained-ish arc. According to our listeners and many readers, this serves as a more suitable jumping off point. Lees meer
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Ep 406 - Under the Skin, by Michel Faber
16 maart 2020 · 1 uur 3 min
There are some cars you just shouldn't get into! Michel Faber's thriller Under the Skin is about Isserley, the driver of one such dangerous vehicle. Why do all the men who get into her car disappear? Is she even really human? Are you? Hop in for the answers to these questions and more! Lees meer
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Ep 405 - Friday Black, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
9 maart 2020 · 59 min
Friday Black, a debut collection of short stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, deftly employs hyperbole to make the reader notice horrors of American life that have become less-noticeable through repetition. It’s also going to resonate with anyone who has spent any amount of time working retail on the day after Thanksgiving. Lees meer
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Ep 404 - Sonic the Hedgehog: The Official Movie Novelization, by Kiel Phegley (Bonus Episode)
6 maart 2020 · 1 uur 6 min
We had a blast processing this novelization of the hit film Sonic the Hedgehog! Did you know it's based on a video game?! Gotta read fast! Lees meer
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Ep 403 - High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby (Live w/ Appointment Television)
2 maart 2020 · 59 min
This week’s episode is our recent live show crossover event with Appointment Television at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The Appointment Television and Overdue crews gather together to discuss the recent TV adaptation and compare it to the book from which it (and the film, and the ill-starred musical) sprung. Whether we figure out the relative superiority of books or TV as competing artistic formats is left up to the listener. Lees meer
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Ep 402 - Paradise, by Toni Morrison
24 februari 2020 · 1 uur 1 min
In this challenging novel, award-winning author Toni Morrison explores how utopias are defined (and perhaps undermined) by their boundaries. The all-black town of Ruby, Oklahoma survived for decades by cordoning itself off from the outside world. But what happens when the outside world starts gnawing at the people inside? Lees meer
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Ep 401 - The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin (w/ Kate Racculia)
17 februari 2020 · 1 uur 6 min
This week's book is a cozy mystery, but for kids! Author Kate Racculia joins us for a discussion of The Westing Game, which was a major inspiration for her own work (and is a completely wild read, besides). Lees meer
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Ep 400 - The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
10 februari 2020 · 1 uur 21 min
What better way to celebrate a milestone episode than to make a bunch of teenagers fight each other to the death? Join us as we discuss the first entry in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy, taking particular delight in its worldbuilding and its protagonist Katniss Everdeen. We also get into some of the film-informed Discourse that has surrounded the series since its release, and of course we take time to get our celebrities all mixed up. Lees meer
(Special note: Want to come see us live with our friends from Appointment Television? Head to bit.ly/booksortv for info on our live show at Kenyon College in Gambier, OH on Thursday, February 20th. It's free!)
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Ep 399 - The Wind Done Gone, by Alice Randall
3 februari 2020 · 51 min
Welcome to Febuwary! This week’s episode is a follow-up of sorts to Episode 291, in which Andrew read Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind. The Wind Done Gone is labeled a “parody” for legal reasons but it feels somewhere in between a sequel and a critique, acknowledging the strong characters of the original but tearing down its rose-tinted nostalgia for the antebellum American South. Lees meer
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HELLBOYS, a Divine Comedy miniseries - Episodes 7 & 8
31 januari 2020 · 1 uur 41 min
Welcome to another installment of HELLBOYS, a Divine Comedy podcast from the boys here at Overdue! We're continuing our journey through Robert and Jean Hollander's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy a few cantos at a time. Lees meer
Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we combine them for general consumption. This combo episode carries us to the top of Mt. Purgatory (Purgatorio XXIII-XXXIII) and up into the stars (Paradiso I-IX). We walk through fire, visit a Garden of Eden, and meet some truly charming moon people.
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Ep 398 - Wool, by Hugh Howey
27 januari 2020 · 59 min
In the future, all of mankind will be confined to an underground silo, wondering when and if the world outside will ever be habitable again. But if things aren't as bad as they seem? And what if everyone in the silo isn't as alone as they think? Lees meer
That's the premise of Hugh Howey's Wool, a collection of stories woven together into a novel about secrets, duties, and revolution. Time to talk about climate change and what makes a short story compelling!
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Ep 397 - Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots (Bailey School Kids #1) by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Jones (w/ Alli from SSR)
20 januari 2020 · 1 uur 12 min
The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids commence with a new teacher who just MIGHT be a vampire! It's time to get to the undead bottom of this...or is it? Lees meer
We recorded this week's show with Alli from the SSR Podcast, a great show you should check out if you want a trip down memory lane to your middle school library. We were really honored to be included in SSR's "Manuary" lineup this year, and we hope you enjoy this hot collab!
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Ep 396 - The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
13 januari 2020 · 58 min
To put it mildly, a lot of stuff has happened since we released our episode on The Handmaid's Tale back in 2014. Among that stuff is the release of The Testaments, the 2019 sequel to the original book and a companion piece of sorts to the Hulu television series. Lees meer
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Ep 395 - The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
6 januari 2020 · 59 min
It is better to be feared than loved. The ends justify the means. King Louis sucked. These are the (clearly) famous quotes from Machiavelli's classic yet innovative work of political science. It's time to talk power, political satire, and the wonderful translation by Tim Parks. Lees meer
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Ep 394 - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore (Bonus Episode)
4 januari 2020 · 1 uur 2 min
Inspired by the raunchy humor and biblical events of Christopher Moore's take on Jesus, we recorded a rowdy bonus episode with our rollicking Patreon chat. Lees meer
Want to join us for the next bonus recording? Head to patreon.com/overduepod to find out how.
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Ep 393 - The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
30 december 2019 · 1 uur 1 min
The Mists of Avalon is a seminal work of fantasy fiction that centers the women of Arthurian legend such as Morgan Le Fay. Its author was a terrible person. We talk about the terrible stuff first, and then we try to unpack why the book has entertained and resonated with so many. Lees meer
Also - don't spend any money on this book! Donate to www.rainn.org instead.
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Ep 392 - Home for Hanukkah (Sexy Sylvie #1), by Celine Banks
23 december 2019 · 54 min
Book one in the one-book Sexy Sylvie series isn’t about a sexy Hanukkah miracle where one night’s worth of personal lubricant lasts for eight nights, but we had fun with it anyway. Lees meer
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Ep 391 - The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
16 december 2019 · 57 min
The Eyre Affair is the book that you would get if Ready Player One were about literature instead of the 1980s, and also if Ready Player One was more engaging or half as clever as it thought it was. Lees meer
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Ep 390 - The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
9 december 2019 · 57 min
George Selden wrote a charming story about a charming cricket named Chester who just charms the pants right off everyone living in New York City - including a cat and a mouse. And the illustrations by Garth Williams are also charming! Lees meer
You know what's not so charming? Liverwurst.
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Ep 389 - The Secret River, by Kate Grenville
2 december 2019 · 1 uur 5 min
Andrew's got the week off so Craig's wife Laura joins the show again to talk about Kate Grenville's award-winning novel The Secret River. Lees meer
The story is an an attempt to tell more truthfully the British settlement of Australia, as through the eyes of one man sent to the penal colony that would ultimately become the country we know today. The violence he witnesses - and participates in - against Aboriginal people defines him as well as the generations that come after.
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HELLBOYS, a Divine Comedy miniseries - Episodes 5 & 6
30 november 2019 · 1 uur 41 min
Welcome to another installment of HELLBOYS, a Divine Comedy podcast from the boys here at Overdue! We're continuing our journey through Robert and Jean Hollander's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy a few cantos at a time. Lees meer
Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we combine them for general consumption. This combo episode carries us through the first two thirds of the Purgatorio, covering Cantos I-XXII. We climb up God's "Learn Your Lesson" mountain, meet a bunch of Dante-thirsty paparazzi, and encounter one "hell" of a Virgil stan.
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Ep 388 - The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
25 november 2019 · 1 uur 19 min
Elements of Ayn Rand's Objectivist worldview hold a lot of sway in conservative American politics, so we go back to one of Rand's most significant works to see what all the fuss is about. Lees meer
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Ep 387 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey (w/ The Librarian Is In)
18 november 2019 · 1 uur 9 min
This week, we're joined once again by Gwen and Frank from the New York Public Library's The Librarian Is In podcast, this time to talk about Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (and the movie of the same name). It's a discussion of narrator reliability, "boy books," and the long and fruitful career of Louise Fletcher. Lees meer
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Ep 386 - On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
11 november 2019 · 1 uur 4 min
What's up, daddio? Dig this, you cool cats: a podcast, burning with the soul of American individualism and the poetry of the open highway. Kerouac's legendary novel defined the Beat Generation, and it's chock-a-block with hallmarks of the era. Join us for a road trip back to the late 1940s -- an era of sweaty jazz, discarded marriages, and Benzedrine. Lees meer
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