Overdue

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 children’s books: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.


All Episodes

Ep 042 – A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

‘Tis the season to do seasonally-themed episodes, and so Andrew read Charles Dickens’A Christmas Carol, the short story that has been so widely adapted that you know it front-to-back...

Ep 041 – Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell

What do you do when your meth-cooking father goes missing in the Missouri Ozarks? Ask your relatives? Go to the cops? Dig for evidence yourself? These are the options...

Ep 040 – Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger

Sometimes an author’s personality (or legend, even) grows to the point that it’s just as interesting as the work they produced. This is certainly true in the case of...

Ep 039 – The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In 1893, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “killed” Sherlock Holmes. Eight years later, the popular detective returned inThe Hound of the Baskervilles, much to the delight of Doyle’s mother. Why...

Ep 038 – Eddie and the Cruisers, by P.F. Kluge

Andrew and Craig both come at P.F. Kluge’s Eddie and the Cruisers from a unique perspective: Kluge was (and is) writer-in-residence at Kenyon College (their alma mater). They’ve both had him in...

Ep 037 – The Unnamable, by Samuel Beckett

No plot, no characters, no setting. Samuel Beckett’sThe Unnamablesounds like it’s about nothing, but it’s more than just theSeinfeldof novels – or so Craig tries to convince Andrew.Beckett, a...

Ep 036 – Battle Royale, by Koushun Takami

Another Hunger Games movie is right around the corner, but you just can’t wait. You need to read a heartwarming tale about tweens and teens who are all dropped...

Ep 035 – No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is sheeple, hot cocoa, interventions, mannequins, French pronunciations, and gin. Also, hell is other people. Or so wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in his famous existentialist dramaNo Exit. Join us...

Ep 034 – Don’t Go Back to School, by Kio Stark

We tried something a little different this week—instead of reading a novel or play, Andrew read Kio Stark’s crowdfunded handbook Don’t Go Back to School. Stark interviews artists, writers,...

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