Latest Andrew cunningham Podcast Episodes
Ep 637 - The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White
Overdue - March 11, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsThe third and final of White's whimsical children's books about animals, The Trumpet of the Swan asks important questions like: How do swans learn English? How can we better provide accommodations for those who need them? And how much money could a swan earn at a jazz club in the 1960s?...
Ep 636 - The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
Overdue - March 04, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsModern readers often experience C.S. Lewis as "the Narnia guy," but he's also one of the 20th century's foremost Christian apologetics. The Screwtape Letters, written from the point of view of a demon whose object is to send souls to Hell, is a deeply Christian work but its appeal comes...
Ep 635 - Jazz, by Toni Morrison
Overdue - February 26, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsToni Morrison’s second novel in her beloved Beloved trilogy, Jazz introduces the reader to a trio of characters united by an incident of tragic romance. Will the freewheeling optimism of the Jazz Age set them on the path of redemption or will they be bound to their painful pasts? This...
Ep 634 - The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3), by Rick Riordan
Overdue - February 19, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsPercy Jackson returns for another road trip across a mythological United States. Plenty of new characters are introduced -- and some of them survive! This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to squarespace.com/overdue for 10% of your first purchase of a website or domain. Our them...
Ep 633 - Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5), by Martha Wells
Overdue - February 12, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsOur month of sequels continues with the first full-length novel in Martha Wells' Murderbot series. The book's extra length leaves it room to dig into themes that the novellas had only nodded at, and also has a whole bunch of extra murderbots in it. This episode is sponsored by BetterH...
Ep 632 - Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #2), by Tamsyn Muir
Overdue - February 05, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsTo kick off a month of sequel coverage, we get bone deep in the Locked Tomb follow up Harrow the Ninth. This obtuse but compelling sci-fi/fantasy tome plays with perspective, doubles down on the space wizards, and challenges the reader NOT to notice oddly specific meme references. Thi...
Ep 631 - The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Overdue - January 29, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsAn early-90s Bengali novel that was translated into English relatively recently, The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die has a lot going for it, but as with many books the thing we'll remember the most is the murderous horny ghost aunt. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Advertise on O...
Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 1 & 2 (Books 1-4)
Overdue - January 26, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsFor our latest show-within-a-show, we'll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We'll be reading it a few books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. These two episodes cover Books 1-4. Episode 1: Th...
Ep 630 - Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson
Overdue - January 22, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsMove along, everyone. Nothing to see here. No women navigating adult friendships and their identities as parents. No jabs at men in power who work overtime to cover up their shame. And definitely no kids that catch on fire. Move along! Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Ad...
Ep 629 - The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen (Bonus Episode)
Overdue - January 19, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsTime to celebrate winter with a chilly fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Also we're talking Disney's FROZEN! To join us for future bonus recordings, head to patreon.com/overduepod. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Advertise on Overdue See Privacy Policy at https:/...
Ep 628 - The Witch Elm, by Tana French
Overdue - January 15, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsThe Witch Elm has Dublin, and it has murder, and it has a squad of detectives, but despite all that it is not a book in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series. This riff on her classic crime novel formula focuses instead on some of the suspects, namely Toby Hennessey, who doesn’t know...
Ep 627 - Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Overdue - January 08, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsBanned in many countries until the 1960s, David Herbert Lawrence's 1928 novel is both racier and tamer than you might imagine. What more would you expect from a book that uses both "the love experience" and [BLEEP] to describe, well, adult behavior? Caveat lictor: this episode features ...
Ep 626 - The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne
Overdue - January 01, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsHappy 2024, and happy Public Domain day! Time finally caught up to US copyright law a few years ago, and the result has been a steady trickle of new creative work that’s available for anyone to modify and adapt. This year’s Big One is the earliest version of Mickey Mouse, but the new ba...
Ep 625 - Her Night With Santa, by Adriana Herrera
Overdue - December 25, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsYou can't spell Horny without Ho(-Ho-Ho)! In this year's Happy Hornydays celebration, one of the people finding love during the holiday season is Santa herself. That's right, this is an F/F steamy short featuring a gender-swapped Kristina Kringle and the niece (???) of Melchior (????) t...
Ep 624 - Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
Overdue - December 18, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsThis generation-spanning epic explores the experience of a Korean family living in Japan throughout (most of) the 20th century. We talk about Lee's use of time, her penchant for "minor" characters, and the recent adaptation of Pachinko for Apple TV+. Our theme music was composed by Nic...
Ep 623 - Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake
Overdue - December 11, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsDespite being fairly well-versed in 20th-century fantasy, Mervyn Peake and his Gormenghast series has flown completely under our radar until now. It's a strange, florid, disjointed book with some fascinating character portraits, and also the most detailed description of a dude taking a ...
Sand by Me: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - Books 9 & 10
Overdue - December 09, 2023 11:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsOur previous show-within-a-show concludes! In this longread project, we worked our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon supporters got these episodes monthly, but every two months we combined them for general consumption. If you haven't hear...
Ep 622 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
Overdue - December 04, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsIn this episode, two gamers sit down to talk about one of the buzziest books of 2022. Zevin's blockbuster novel spans 30 years of advancement in technology and in the friendship of Sadie and Sam, two gifted game designers working out how they fit into each other's lives. Our theme musi...
Ep 621 - All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1), by Martha Wells
Overdue - November 27, 2023 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsWhen you make an AI too smart, you also give it anxiety and depression and an appetite for serialized television. These are the things that motivate Murderbot, the protagonist of the many Murderbot Diaries stories that Martha Wells has released in the short time between 2017 and now. ...
Ep 620 - The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2), by Rick Riordan
Overdue - November 20, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsPercy Jackson and his pals are back in another mythology-packed middle-grade adventure story, this time (mostly) patterned after the voyages of our old pal Odysseus. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Advertise on Overdue See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an...
Ep 619 - The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Overdue - November 13, 2023 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsMssr. Merseault only likes a few things, unfortunately he must live his life doing plenty of other things for people he doesn't particularly care about. Such is the story of this seminal work of 20th-century fiction and absurdist philosophy. Join us as we grapple with an indifferent uni...
Ep 618 - A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny (Bonus Episode)
Overdue - November 10, 2023 13:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsWhat if a dog was your POV character? What if that dog's owner was JACK THE RIPPER? What if there was a game but you didn't know who was playing? All of these questions and more get asked in our Spooktober bonus episode. To join us for future bonus recordings, head to patreon.com/overd...
Ep 617 - Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros (w/ Heaving Bosoms!)
Overdue - November 06, 2023 11:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsWe joined Melody and Sabrina for episode 300 of Heaving Bosoms, where we all chatted about the made-to-order, big-on-TikTok, new-adult romantasy that is Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing. (It may be about the fourth wing, but it's the first of a planned five books). Our theme music was compo...
Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episode 0
Overdue - November 03, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsFor this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be revisiting Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We'll be reading it a few books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. This episode is a free teaser...
Ep 616 - The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
Overdue - October 30, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsBased on the hit film--just kidding. Blatty's novel was swiftly turned into a landmark film adaptation just a few years after its release. And it's easy to see why: hauntings, sad priests, the patriarchy's fears about the social mobility of women. People couldn't get enough of that stuf...
Ep 615 - Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice
Overdue - October 23, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsHow would the "breakdown" phase of an apocalypse novel function if the characters involved had already survived through multiple apocalypses? That's the perspective that this week's book brings, in addition to the subtle spooks that come from anticipating the end of the world. Our the...
Ep 614 - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Overdue - October 16, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsWhat if H.G. Well's classic tale of humanimals created by a mad scientist were recontextualized in southeast Mexico? Would you find yourself saying that the Yucatan is less an island and more of a peninsula? Sure, you might say that - but why waste time on pedantry when you can engage w...
Ep 613 - The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H.G. Wells
Overdue - October 09, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsIf you've ever done surgery on a dog to make it more like a guy, only to set it loose in the wilderness and gradually watch it shift back into being a dog, maybe you'll have some sympathy for Doctor Moreau. Otherwise it's pretty hard to get fully onboard with his whole badly-make-animal...
Ep 612 - Cackle, by Rachel Harrison (w/ Natasha from UNspoiled!)
Overdue - October 02, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsWelcome to Spooktober 2023! We've all been through a bad break-up, right? We've all moved away to start fresh, we've all started a new job, we've all befriended witchy spider-ladies and felt a strange new power growing within us. Right? Tale as old as time. We're joined this week by ...
Sand By Me: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - Books 7 & 8
Overdue - September 30, 2023 10:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsWelcome to our current show-within-a-show! We're working our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. In Episode 7: BRIEF LIVES, Gaiman digs...
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