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  • Ep 772 - Butter, by Asako Yuzuki

    October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    It's true that we usually try to reserve Spooktober for books that are, how you say, "classically spooky." But isn't societal misogyny and fatphobia just as spooky as any ghost, ghoul, or pieced-together-monster-that-rep…

  • Ep 771 - The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones

    October 12, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    Spooktober continues with this Rez Gothic slasher from Stephen Graham Jones. A vengeful spirit hunts down four young Blackfeet men for a past transgression on their reservation, prompting reflection on whether or not they'd ever have…

  • Ep 770 - She Waits Where Shadows Gather, by Michelle Tang

    October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    A classic haunted house tale, full of ghosts and bugs and ghosts who can boss around bugs. I swear the presence of time travel was not something I gravitated to on purpose this time. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to…

  • Ep 769 - Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein

    September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    Heinlein'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…

  • The Sillymarillion Ep 04 - The Black Gate Opens (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)

    September 26, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    For 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 min

    They'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…

  • Ep 767 - Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

    September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Shhhh...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…

  • Ep 766 - Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay

    September 7, 2026 · 58 min

    This 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%…

  • Ep 765 - Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3), by Tamsyn Muir (w/ Meghan Winch)

    August 31, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

    Do 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…

  • The Prydainger Zone Ep 00 - Lloyd Alexander and his Chronicles, an introduction

    August 28, 2026 · 33 min

    For 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…

  • Ep 764 - Waist Deep, by Linea Maja Ernst

    August 24, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    This 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…

  • Ep 763 - Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree

    August 17, 2026 · 55 min

    This story is a giant bag of cotton candy, which we mean mostly as a compliment. It's a romance-adjacent found family story set in a cozy coffee shop set against a D&D-flavored backdrop, a place where almost no one is really a villain and…

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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.