Overdue
732 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsOverdue 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.
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Ep 082 - At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft
October 13, 2014 13:07 - 54 minutes - 50 MBIf you've ever heard of a Cthulu, read about the Necronomicon, or been creeped out by sleepy towns in New England, you likely have H.P. Lovecraft to thank. At the Mountains of Madness (1935), a tale of an Antarctic expedition gone wrong, fits squarely into two literary genres Lovecraft helped to define: cosmicism and weird fiction. Man is rendered insignificant by the ancient forces of the cosmos, and supernatural beings that are neither ghosts nor aliens abound. Suffice to say, ...
Ep 081 - Rosemary's Baby, by Ira Levin
October 06, 2014 18:07 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBOur spooky October (Spooktober?) continues this week with Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, a book about broken trust and creepy new neighbors and Satan babies and a bunch of other stuff. It's a laugh a minute! This book (and the successful film based on it) serves as a predecessor to just about every horror film where a happy young family moves into a new house only to discover that it's haunted, or where a woman marries a new guy only to find that he's actually a crazy killer, or where...
Ep 080 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
September 30, 2014 04:08 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBWashington 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 as a satirist in the early 1800s before moving to England (ironically enough) and gaining international recognition as a teller of tales. You may have heard of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane, Tarry Town, pumpkins: these likely ring a bell. But did you know that I...
Ep 079 - The Homecoming, by Harold Pinter
September 24, 2014 04:58 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBThe 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 written by Harold Pinter. Andrew wasn't quite on board with Pinter's classic The Homecoming, but he was coming around a little bit by the end. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Ep 078 - The Mystery of Chimney Rock (Choose Your Own Adventure) by Edward Packard
September 15, 2014 05:12 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBWe'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 actually have branching paths based on page numbers, but this week's episode does! We both decided to navigate through Edward Packard's The Mystery of Chimney Rock on-air this week, and in doing so we encountered some scary cats, old ladies with metal claw-hands, and fat-faced groundskeepers. Will we make it out alive, or will ...
Ep 077 - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
September 08, 2014 11:28 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBSafecracker, 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 interests. His collection of anecdotes Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! chronicles some of these pursuits, while also shedding light on Feynman's years at Los Alamos working on the atomic bomb in the company of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr and others. Join us this week to find ou...
Ep 076 - This Is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz
September 02, 2014 19:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBThis 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 history are clearly related to that of Yunior, the character the book spends the most time with. But how much of Díaz is in Yunior, and how does that affect the way we feel about them both? Also on the docket: back-to-school, some talk about how your gender may affect how you come at this book, and l...
Ep 075 - The Hairy Ape, by Eugene O'Neill
August 25, 2014 12:19 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MB"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, he leaves nothing to chance. In his 1922 work of expressionist theatre, The Hairy Ape, the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner spells out exactly how you're supposed to feel about the dehumanizing effects of Capitalism and industry. Men resemble gorillas, crowd after crowd spurn individuals, and a chilling ending leaves us wondering where any of u...
Ep 074 - Orange Is The New Black, by Piper Kerman
August 18, 2014 04:28 - 1 hour - 56 MBThere's a fair chance that you're familiar with Piper Kerman's Orange Is The New Black through the award-winning Netflix drama. This week we wanted to go to the source material and read the original memoir, not just to compare and contrast the book and the show but so we could separate fact from fiction and learn more about what's really going on in women's prisons. Like the show, the book is sometimes funny, often sad, and occasionally bleak. Kerman's stance against mandatory mini...
Ep 073 - Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth
August 12, 2014 05:23 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBThings get a little hot and heavy on this week's episode dedicated to Philip Roth's 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint. We do, however, start off with some reactions to our Pride and Prejudice episode before diving headlong into the mishmash of sex, psychoanalysis, and American Jewish life that is Portnoy and his titular complaint. Caveat Lector: This book necessitated discussing some rather graphic subject matter, so we decided to slap the "Explicit" tag on the episode. Not only did t...
Ep 072 - Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
August 05, 2014 04:21 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBThis week, we take another run at Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice is, in Andrew's words, "a book where a bunch of people eventually get married to each other. "It's also more than that, of course—it gives us an opportunity to talk about class, wealth, social standing, love, the institution of marriage, Milton Bradley jingles, and one Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy (Fitzy to his friends). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...
Ep 071 - Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
July 29, 2014 04:05 - 1 hour - 60 MBGo Tell It on the Mountain, the first novel by revered American author and essayist James Baldwin tackles a whole host of serious issues ranging from slavery to the Great Migration, religion to racism, and Southern oppression to broken Northern promises. Naturally, we break up our earnest discussion of these weighty subjects with frequent admissions of our own perpetual ignorance, as well as a few tangents on Very Important Topics such as Orange is the New Black, erotic wrestling, ...
Ep 070 - Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
July 22, 2014 04:24 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBThis week's book, Tracy Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring, is historical fiction that purports to tell the story of the painting of the same name. If that's not a good elevator pitch for a book, we haven't heard one. Join us for a discussion of art and artists, historically accurate historical fiction, and what happens when you take the sex scenes out of romance novels. We also kick the show off with a discussion of Amazon's new Kindle Unlimited and its possibly negative effect...
Ep 069 - The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
July 14, 2014 22:13 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBBernhard Schlink's The Reader was published just five years after the reunification of Germany, and the ways in which it explores the country's troubled history were quite verboten while the wall still stood. A young man falls in love with an older woman, a woman with a number of secrets, and their tempestuous relationship becomes an allegory for Germany's relationship with itself - with its history, its people, and its uncertain future. Join as we admit our lack of German book-le...
Ep 068 - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan
July 07, 2014 14:54 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBRobin Sloan's debut novel, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, tackles the literary world's imminent digital future with an adventure tale that Andrew describes as "like a Dan Brown book but good." Through the eyes of a recently unemployed college graduate, Sloan shows us a world where Googlers and ancient cryptographers race to discover a centuries-old secret. It's a world where data visualization is sexy, search engines are evil all-powerful, and Aldus Manutius is on the tip of eve...
Ep 067 - Bossypants, by Tina Fey
July 01, 2014 04:05 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBTina Fey is a prolific, talented, outspoken comedian with a track record to rival the best in the business. She’s also a keen observer of the human condition, and her 2011 memoir/essay collection Bossypants covers with wit and humor a wide range of topics including the ins and outs of television comedy writing, motherhood, and becoming a woman in the late 20th century. Just as her infamous 2008 portrayal of Sarah Palin sparked many a cable news conversation (some productive, some f...
Ep 066 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
June 24, 2014 06:41 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBAgatha Christie is the owner of numerous superlatives: best-selling novelist, influential mystery writer, criminally successful playwright. Also, did we mention she's a dame? Her novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, written in the 1930s, endures not only for its fanciful cast of characters (including the lovable detective Hercule Poirot) but also for its subversion of the murder mystery genre. In short: read this one. We spoil the heck out of this one's ending. Discussion of the bo...
Ep 065 - The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides
June 17, 2014 04:12 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBMore than a year after reading Middlesex for Episode 12, this week we return to Jeffrey Eugenides' oeuvre to check out 2011's The Marriage Plot. It's a more focused, less-sprawling book than Middlesex, but as in his previous book Eugenides spends a lot of time here talking about growing up with a difficult condition. Intentional or not, there's also some subtle sexism here that we try to walk ourselves through—it's complicated by both authorial intent and the time the book is set (...
Ep 064 - Big Blonde and Here We Are, by Dorothy Parker
June 09, 2014 13:07 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBDorothy Parker was a prolific Jazz Age writer who rose to prominence during her days as a member of the Algonquin Round Table - a group of writers, critics and actors who liked to spend lunch cracking wise and practically joking. A celebrated poet, Parker also churned out dozens of short stories, earning herself an O. Henry Short Story Prize for "Big Blonde" which we discuss on today's show. We also cover her biting portrait of newlyweds "Here We Are," the Reading Rainbow Kickstarte...
Ep 063 - King Lear, by William Shakespeare
June 02, 2014 05:08 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBWilliam Shakespeare's reputation is basically secure at this point. He was hugely influential, his works are widely studied, and although he's over 400 years old he remains a part of the liberal arts canon to this day. That doesn't necessarily mean that his works are easy to parse. This week, we stumble a bit through the epic tragedy King Lear, a play that has all the hallmarks of a Shakespearian tragedy—death, madness, people running around in disguise—but a big cast of characters ...
Ep 062 - The Giver, by Lois Lowry
May 26, 2014 13:43 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBLois Lowry's The Giver imagines a world without color, without hills, without difference and most importantly without memory. Winner of the 1994 Newberry Award, The Giver shares thematic DNA with classic "Kid Who Is More Special Than Anyone Else Ever" literature like The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Harry Potter. So naturally we take a big old swing at Quidditch. Other targets of our (perhaps misplaced ire) include Nebraska, bachelor weekends, and dreams. See Privacy Policy at ...
Ep 061 - The Lorax / Oh the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
May 19, 2014 03:33 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBIn honor of Children's Book Week, we each decided to read a Dr. Seuss book for this episode—that's right, Andrew had somehow managed to avoid the Lorax, and Craig knew nothing about the Places He'll Go. Seuss himself is a fascinating guy, a prolific and long-lived artist who put a lot of good into the world but was by no means perfect. In some ways he's a product of his time, even if his work is timeless. Also on tap: old Subway ads, a couple of The Wire references because Craig i...
Ep 060 - Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
May 12, 2014 12:41 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBWhat if superheroes were real? Would we still revere them so much? Or would they be too frightening for us to handle, too unstable for us to control? What if they didn't want to save us? These are the questions that kick off Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, a classic revered by comic fans for its deconstruction of superhero imagery, its compelling Cold War conspiracies, and its engrossing art and characters. Join us this week as we debate "comic" vs. "graphical novel," gri...
Ep 059 - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain
May 06, 2014 05:30 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBMark Twain is an incredibly prolific, incredibly distinctive author. This week's read is just a short story and it's one of Twain's first major successes, but it manages to convey why he remains vital over 100 years after his death. It's great for a few laughs, too. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Ep 058 - The Passage, by Justin Cronin
April 29, 2014 01:15 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBJustin Cronin got his start publishing quiet but moving "literary" fiction. In 2010, he blew up North America (in a manner of speaking) with his post-apocalyptic don't-call-them-vampires "genre" novel The Passage. We can't hope to cover every plot point or character in Cronin's 766-page genre epic, but we try to at least touch on a few reasons for its mainstream appeal: rich characters, an unrelenting plot, and lots of sweet jargon. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy ...
Ep 057 - Tell the Wolves I'm Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt
April 22, 2014 04:43 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBTell the Wolves I'm Home, author Carol Rifka Brunt's first novel, is multi-faceted: it's about different kinds of love. It's about siblinghood, and growing up. It's about the early stages of the AIDS epidemic in the US. There's a lot going on here, to which we add the requisite discussion about pizza-making, podcasting, and how actors remember all those lines. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-i...
Ep 056 - The Misanthrope, by Molière
April 14, 2014 12:56 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBMolière's The Misanthrope is a three-and-a-half centuries old play about something as old as time: dishing on your people behind their back. It's also full of great zingers about man's duplicitous nature, all written by a guy who loved theater so much he ended up nearly dying onstage in his final performance. Join us as Richard Wilbur's delightful translation makes us laugh out loud, as we butcher French, Italian, and any other language we can get our hands on, and as Andrew shares...
Ep 055 - To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
April 08, 2014 04:09 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBA true classic, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is one of those books we should have read years ago. For the two of you who aren't familiar, it's a story about a lot of things: the trial of an innocent black man; growing up in small-town Alabama during the Depression; and growing up. It's made all the more interesting by Lee herself, who to date has never written another novel. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...
Ep 054 - In the Woods, by Tana French
March 31, 2014 13:15 - 57 minutes - 53 MBWhy do we keep trying to solve murders in small towns? What is it like for an American author to set a story in a sleepy Irish suburb? Will our amnesiac protagonists ever regain this memory? What's the best way to interrogate a suspect? We try to solve these mysteries and more on this week's episode as we discuss Tana French's award-winning crime novel In the Woods. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se...
Ep 053 - The Yellow Wallpaper / The Lottery
March 25, 2014 05:56 - 52 minutes - 48 MBWe double-dip a bit in this week's show, reading two short stories and proving that you don't have to have a ton of time to read something thought-provoking. The theme is "female authors writing about controversial-at-the-time ideas," and the stories are The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. One is about a misdiagnosed "hysterical" woman slowly going insane through lack of mental stimulation, one is about a seemingly innocuous small to...
Ep 052 - Extra Innings, by Baseball Prospectus
March 17, 2014 11:48 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBIt's almost baseball season! And what better way to celebrate America's (former) pastime than to document the annual occurrence of Craig forcing Andrew to tolerate his love of baseball? Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers is an in-depth, statistics-focused look at today's game from the folks at Baseball Prospectus. It's full of trivia, charts and, thankfully, humorous anecdotes that illuminate the tension between the old-school and stat-wonky approaches to the sport. ...
Ep 051 - Replay, by Ken Grimwood
March 11, 2014 00:52 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBWhat if you got to/had to live the same 25 years of your life over and over again? Would you try to recreate the life you had lost? Would you game the system and make a whole bunch of money? Would you try to change the course of human history, with sometimes-disastrous results? Those are the questions raised by Ken Grimwood's sci-fi classic Replay, which Andrew read for the show this week. Tangentially related is a conversation about Andrew and Craig's own time traveling, done than...
Ep 050 - Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
March 03, 2014 04:58 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBStrap yourselves in and pick a good safe word, because Andrew and Craig both read Fifty Shades of Grey for this, our landmark 50th episode! Boy are they sorry! A warning up front in case you're not familiar: this is a book that is mostly about a BDSM relationship. Our show this week has swearing and pretty graphic descriptions of sex, so keep that in mind while listening. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...
Ep 049 - Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
February 24, 2014 13:42 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBWhat's a granfalloon, you ask? Or a karass? A stuppa? A wampeter? These are all terms from the Bokonon religion, created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle - a hilarious but depressing satire of scientific and cultural responsibility in the atomic age. Topics for this week's discussion include Donuts versus Bagels, grading your own work the Vonnegut way, the incredible intimacy of feet, and pissants. That's right. Pissants. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv...
Ep 048 - Dracula, by Bram Stoker
February 18, 2014 07:37 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBCraig and Andrew take a trip to Transylvania this week, facilitated by Bram Stoker's Dracula. Join us for a talk about the evolution of the vampire, the Olympics, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff too. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Ep 047 - Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
February 04, 2014 05:14 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MB'Ello 'ello! What's all this then?! A discussion of George Bernard Shaw, turn-of-the-century dialects, My Fair Lady and gender politics, ya say? Conversations about whether or not stories should end romantically or with women declaring their independence, ya say? Well, 'Guv, I'm all ears. Cheerio! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Ep 046 - The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
January 28, 2014 06:32 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBWe return to the Dead White Male canon this week with Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the gripping tale of an old man who goes out fishing in the sea. The title is maybe a little more literal than some other books we've read. Join us for a discussion of man's place in the circle of life and of Craig's many misfortunes. Just don't come expecting us to talk about the story's religious undertones. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Noti...
Ep 045 - The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
January 21, 2014 05:54 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBWhat does it mean to be a woman? We don't know the answer to that question, and it's doubtful we ever will. But reading Kate Chopin's revolutionary novel The Awakening is as close as we'll ever come to understanding the obstacles facing a woman in late 19th-century New Orleans. Censored in its day for its matter-of-fact portrait of a woman stuck in a stifling marriage, The Awakening remains relevant through its insightful exploration of the pursuit of independence. It's also a per...
Ep 044 - Mary Poppins, by P. L. Travers
January 14, 2014 05:37 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBHave you ever revisited a classic from your childhood only to find a whole pile of weird subtext you've never noticed before? Andrew's never read Mary Poppins, but all he noticed in this children's tale of whimsy and wonder was the bizarre-and-possibly-damaging stuff. Also on tap: chatting about gambling, babysitters, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Ep 043 - The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
December 31, 2013 01:17 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBNothing screams New Year's like a guy sitting in his study, missing his beloved, wishing an obnoxious, repetitive bird would just leave him the heck alone. Therefore it's only natural that Craig read a classic tale of bird vs. man antagonism. The Raven is arguably Edgar Allan Poe's most famous work, so it's fitting we use it as a springboard to talk about all sorts of Poe-related topics such as New Year's resolutions, Poe's Philosophy of Composition, pentameters and octometers, an...
Ep 042 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
December 24, 2013 20:56 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB'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 even if you've never come within ten miles of the book itself. Also on the docket: our holiday plans, a brief aside that compares A Christmas Carol to Bill Murray vehicle Groundhog Day, and our unhealthy relationships with caffeine. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv...
Ep 041 - Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell
December 17, 2013 05:15 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBWhat 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 facing Ree Dolly, protagonist of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel Winter's Bone. Woodrell's described his Ozark-based work as "country noir" - a term we spend a minute or two attempting to define before launching into our discussion of the novel that was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Jennifer Lawren...
Ep 040 - Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
December 10, 2013 03:50 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBSometimes 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 JD Salinger—the stories that sprang up around the reclusive author threaten to overshadow many of the stories he actually wrote. It doesn't help that he stopped publishing new work 45 years before his death in 2010. Having already read Catcher in the Rye, Andrew this week moved on to Franny and Zooey, a pair of related...
Ep 039 - The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
November 25, 2013 05:37 - 49 minutes - 45 MBIn 1893, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "killed" Sherlock Holmes. Eight years later, the popular detective returned in The Hound of the Baskervilles, much to the delight of Doyle's mother. Why was Doyle unable to abandon his creation? Why have the zany detective and his Everyman sidekick Watson endured for over a century? Maybe we'll answer those questions. At the very least, we'll talk about how nerds have kept the crime-fighting duo alive for new generations to enjoy in print and onscre...
Ep 038 - Eddie and the Cruisers, by P.F. Kluge
November 18, 2013 22:20 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBAndrew 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 class, and Kenyon College looms particularly large in many of Kluge's works.The book itself is part whodunit mystery, part love letter to New Jersey, and part tale of youth gone by. Join us for a discussion of all those things, plus more extensive chatter than usual about the author and his wr...
Ep 037 - The Unnamable, by Samuel Beckett
November 12, 2013 14:58 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBNo plot, no characters, no setting. Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable sounds like it's about nothing, but it's more than just the Seinfeld of novels - or so Craig tries to convince Andrew. Beckett, a Nobel Laureate, is likely best known for Waiting for Godot, a play in which "nothing happens, twice." It stormed the theatre scene in Paris, London, and New York in the 1950s, inspiring a generation of theatregoers and angering countless more. Listen this week to find out which play angere...
Ep 036 - Battle Royale, by Koushun Takami
November 05, 2013 02:39 - 56 minutes - 52 MBAnother 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 down on an island by a repressive government and forced to kill each other, and you need to do it now. That's why special guest Suzannah Rosenberg joins Andrew and Craig this week for a discussion of Koushun Takami's Battle Royale. Join us for a discussion of romance, violence, birthdays, and cat whispering. See Privacy Po...
Ep 035 - No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre
October 29, 2013 04:59 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBHell 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 drama No Exit. Join us this week as we travel to Hell to figure out what, exactly, the hell Sartre meant when he penned that infamous quote. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Ep 034 - Don't Go Back to School, by Kio Stark
October 21, 2013 06:40 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBWe 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, and entrepreneurs of various stripes who all have one thing in common: they've found success despite not having the credentials conferred by traditional educational institutions. What followed was a discussion not just of the book, but of our own personal experiences building careers without gradua...
Ep 033 - The Stand, by Stephen King
October 14, 2013 04:35 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBDid you know that Stephen King's The Stand isn't a taut legal thriller? It's just one of the many things that Andrew and Craig learned about the book this week! Special guest Giaco Furino walks Andrew and Craig through the apocalyptic (and then post-apocalyptic), Lord of the Rings-inspired, vaguely supernatural "complete and uncut edition" of the book, which the author himself describes as "boss." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ht...