The 10 Best Overdue Podcast Episodes
1) Ep 360 - We Have Always Lived In The Castle, by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived In The Castle shares some qualities with her best-known short story The Lottery; both feature small New England towns that are the site of some unfortunate mob a...Show More
Ep 360 - We Have Always Lived In The Castle, by Shirley Jackson
53:09 | Jun 3rd, 2019
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2) Ep 331 - Minecraft: The Island, by Max Brooks
Minecraft, one of the most popular games on the planet, has lots of lessons to teach us! Lessons about persistence, about ingenuity, about punching trees. In this kid-friendly novel, Max Brooks detail...Show More
3) Ep 319 - Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
What can be said about Thomas Pynchon's postmodern classic Gravity's Rainbow? Well, it's nearly a thousand pages long so what CAN'T be said, am I right??Join us for a slightly longer than normal conve...Show More
4) Ep 280 - The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne
Shhhhhh, everyone, come in closer. Closer! Because we're about to tell you all about The Secret, and we don't want anyone to overhear. Of course, if they hear us talking about all the parts of this bo...Show More
5) Ep 244 - Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
Do you know the meaning of life? We don't either, but we feel like we're just a little bit closer after reading Hermann Hesse's classic Siddhartha.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and C...Show More
6) Ep 001 - Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Did you pay attention in ninth grade English? Craig did, sort of. This week he reads – or rereads, he’s not sure – John Steinbeck’s classic tale of Depression-era migrant workers. Topics of conversati...Show More
7) Ep 274 - Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (Bonus Episode)
Our "November" bonus episode, the final entry in "stuff we've read month," is Ray Bradbury's old high school lit class standby Fahrenheit 451. Needless to say, it's hitting us differently now than it ...Show More
8) Ep 200 - Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
Here it is: the big two-hundo! This week, Andrew tackles David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in a show that is nearly 2.5 hours long and yet somehow still not quite long enough to get to everything. ...Show More
9) Ep 223 - Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
"I am an invisible man," says the unnamed narrator at the beginning of Ralph Ellison's masterpiece Invisible Man. He then walks the reader through the painful journey that led to this realization, fro...Show More
10) Ep 420 - Candide, by Voltaire
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 pre...Show More