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.
What isAntony and Cleopatra? Tragedy? Romance? History?Comedy? The conventional wisdom is to pick tragedy, but this messy entry in the later chapters of Shakespeare’s canon dances between the Bard’s...
One note for this one: while every episode has a general spoiler warning attached to it, we spoil Yann Martel’s Life of Pi in a pretty big way in...
Craig and Andrew team up with their evil selves this week to read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Well, not really. But in honor of our...
We’re back from our hiatus, and to kick the rust off we’re diving right into a thorny discussion about race, sexuality, and poverty with Alice Walker’s The Color Purple....
“You know Frankenstein’s the name of the doctor, not the monster – right?” Despite decades of metal bolts and flat green foreheads muddying the waters, Mary Shelley’s original Frankensteinhas...
A.A. Milne’s famous bear is almost ninety years old. The first collection of Winnie-the-Pooh stories was published in 1926, yet many of us first traveled to the Hundred Acre...
Max Brooks’ World War Z, soon to be a not-awesome-looking motion picture, takes an interesting approach to the zombie apocalypse story: it’s told through interviews with multiple survivors of...
Whether or not you’ve read The Elements of Style, the writing rules and techniques you learned in grade school likely came from Strunk and White’s “little book.” Craig had...
When you talk about a witch-hunt, you aren’t normally referring to sane, procedural, and fair trials. You’re talking about a fear-driven investigation driven by suspicions rather than facts, where...
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