Our spooky October (Spooktober?) continues this week with Ira Levin’sRosemary’s Baby, a book about broken trust and creepy new neighbors and Satan babies and a bunch of other stuff....

Washington Irving – aka Jonathan Oldstyle, Abner Knickerbocker or Geoffrey Crayon – is widely regarded as the First American writer. Born just after the Revolutionary War, he broke ground...

The stuff in these show notes is just as important as the stuff that isn’t in these show notes. At least, that would be the case if they were...

We’re trying something a little different this week on Overdue. To hear more, turn to page 44. To go back, turn to page 56. OK, this episode listing doesn’t...

Safecracker, prankster, bongo drummer, painter, teacher. Richard Feynman was many things in addition to being a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and he seemed to enjoy the incongruities of his varied...

This week’s story,This Is How You Lose Her, is a loosely connected collection of short stories that blurs the line between protagonist and author. Junot Díaz’s upbringing and personal...

“I’m a hairy ape, get me? And I’ll bust youse in de jaw if you don’t lay off kiddin’ me.” When Eugene O’Neill wants to get his point across,...

There’s a fair chance that you’re familiar with Piper Kerman’sOrange Is The New Blackthrough the award-winning Netflix drama. This week we wanted to go to the source material and...

Things get a little hot and heavy on this week’s episode dedicated to Philip Roth’s 1969 novelPortnoy’s Complaint. We do, however, start off with some reactions to our Pride...