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Overdue
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Today: #126 in Arts on our combined chart.
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| Date | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 1 | #94 |
About the show
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.
Latest episodes
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Ep 769 - Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein
September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minHeinlein's sci-fi classic is rather different from the campy satire of Paul Verhoeven's 1997 adaptation. You can ask similar questions of both. Do they gleefully depict fascism? Do they glorify militarism and violence? Do they successfully…
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The Sillymarillion Ep 04 - The Black Gate Opens (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
September 26, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minFor this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our Patreon supporters in October 2025. If…
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Ep 768 - Retro, by Jessica M. Goldstein
September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minThey'll never write a time travel story that Andrew won't try! This week's riff on the formula includes megalomaniac tech billionaires, millennial malaise, and an astoundingly dangerous amusement park in northern New Jersey. This episode…
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Ep 767 - Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minShhhh...this episode is confidential. The kitchen secrets divulged by bad boy chef Anthony "Tony" Bourdain will Rock Your World. Or will they? This breakout essay collection laid much of the foundation for modern popular understanding of…
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Ep 766 - Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay
September 7, 2026 · 58 minThis classic of twentieth-century Australian literature isn't a Whodunnit. It isn't a Howdunnit. It's barely a dunnit at all. It's a certifiable Whahappen?? This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to squarespace.com/overdue for 10%…
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Ep 765 - Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3), by Tamsyn Muir (w/ Meghan Winch)
August 31, 2026 · 1 hr 31 minDo you like lesbian necromancer space operas but find all the grieving, brooding, and in-fighting a bit hard to sift through? Well then do I have the book for you! What began as Tamsyn Muir's concluding entry in her trilogy of The Locked…
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The Prydainger Zone Ep 00 - Lloyd Alexander and his Chronicles, an introduction
August 28, 2026 · 33 minFor this new show-within-a-show, Andrew and Craig will learn all about The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. We'll read the five books in this classic children's fantasy series, then close out with an extra episode on the Disney…
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Ep 764 - Waist Deep, by Linea Maja Ernst
August 24, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minThis is a book about what happens when a formerly tight-knight group of longtime friends rents a house in the woods for a week. Having to deal with your friends' significant others is one possible hazard; having to deal with a decade's…