Ep 768 - Retro, by Jessica M. Goldstein
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What is the premise of Jessica Goldstein’s novel *Retro*?
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Hey everybody, welcome to Overdue. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. Speaking to you from the year 2026. The
future.
I almost forgot what year it was when I started talking. This year hasn't felt real.
I really like that period of the like eighties and nineties where stuff happened in like the year 2000, like 20XX. Yeah, it was the distant futures. Like guy, gang, that is an extremely like easy amount of time to wrap your head around.
No. It sounded fake.
It sounded fake. A whole other century
and millennia? No. So
here we are in the year two thousand. Everything that's happened so far in this decade has been pretty good. I think it's great.
Yeah. It's been like twenty six years of nothing but good stuff.
Nothing but the hits, you know? Recorded this on September eighteenth.
I
can't think of anything that happened within like a week of today that to that sucked. Like everything was great.
I look back on the whole week and I think, why can't I live these days forever? Why
can't I live them forever? Um But if you do feel, you know, if you feel if you feel oppressed by the buzz of modern life. Yeah. If getting back to something uh older and and purer yeah is appealing to you then uh m perhaps time travel.
Why not? Perhaps why not? On this week of our show where each week one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it, Andrew has read another time travel book. He's stuck in a bit of a loop here.
It's catnip for me. Catnip Everdeen Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein. Craig, I will uh have you know that this is a novel.
It says so on the cover, doesn't it? It
says so on the cover.
Can't go back in time and change that. It's permanent.
If we manage to ch if we manage to upgrade our website so it's like searchable and sortable, I think we have it have a tag that's just a novel and it's every book that says that it's a novel on the cover. That's pretty funny.
That's funny, I like that. Yeah. I wonder which classic books, which publisher is out there putting their own version of Mary Shellens Fr Mary Shelley's Frankenstein out there and going, Frankenstein, a modern Prometheus, a novel.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the premise of Jessica Goldstein’s novel *Retro*?
0:00–14:59
2
How does the book explain the rules of time‑travel at Retro?
14:59–27:26
3
Who are the main characters and what are their motivations?
27:26–39:37
4
Why does the story focus on a tech billionaire’s utopian agenda?
39:37–51:14
5
What role does Action Park (the New Jersey amusement park) play in the narrative?
51:14–58:31
6
How does the concept of a “resilient timeline” affect the plot’s twists?
58:31–1:04:23
7
What are the reviewers’ main criticisms and praises of *Retro*?
1:04:23–1:04:42
8
How do the hosts wrap up the discussion and what book will they read next?
1:04:42–1:05:38
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