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Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 7 & 8 (Books 15-19)

21 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 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...

Ep 668 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are you in your prime? If you were, would you know it? And would you know what to do with it?! Miss Jean Brodie's in her prime, and she's going to tea...

Ep 667 - The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The Odyssey, Penelope is mostly a side character who exists to be faithful to Odysseus (and clever enough to be compatible with him). Atwood's Pene...

Ep 665 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this classic novella, Leo Tolstoy asks, "What would it take for a guy who stinks to realize he stinks? And how would he feel about that at the end ...

Ep 664 - The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5), by Rick Riordan

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

And so the (initial) story of the world of Percy Jackson draws to a close. It's time to discuss the Battle of New York, the resolution of a prophecy, ...

Ep 663 - The Magic School Bus, by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Magic School Bus series, beloved of 80s and 90s kids as both a book series and a TV show, depicts a school where every day is a field trip and eve...

Ep 662 - Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The book that put Murakami on the map in Japan is an intimate tale about youth, love, sex, and grief. So it's not surprise he settled on a Beatles son...

Ep 661 - Into the Wild (Warrior Cats #1), by Erin Hunter

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, cats and kittypets! If you're up for a Redwall-y, Watership Down-y exploration of warrior cat societies and territorial conflicts, boy do we ha...

Ep 660 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Communities collide in the Chicken Hill neighborhood of 1930s Pottstown. Will the tensions become more than this town can manage? Since this is a Jame...

Ep 659 - Beach Read, by Emily Henry

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Henry's Beach Read is a romance novel that's light on the romance, and also on beaches and reading. But it's still fun! An a good argument again...

Ep 658 - Garfield: His 9 Lives, by Jim Davis (Bonus Episode)

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Garfield creator Jim Davis decided to turn his PAWS, Inc. artists loose on multiple interpretations of our favorite orange feline. Behold, a truly abs...

Ep 657 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Caw caw! Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a New Age messiah. Or is it? All we know is that this seagull loves to fly and craves perfection -- which...

Ep 656 - Thérèse Raquin, by Émile Zola

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast is about to REAL! In that we are about to talk about Realism and Naturalism, two things we definitely have an amazing handle on. And did ...

Ep 655 - Heartburn, by Nora Ephron

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nora Ephron is known mainly for her films, but her voice comes through loud and clear in Heartburn, a thinly-veiled autobiographical novel about love ...

Ep 654 - Spy for George Washington (Choose Your Own Adventure), by Jay Leibold

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You find yourself facing a cherry tree. Is it on the level? Is it secretly plotting revenge against the President? Make a choice and dive into this re...

Ep 653 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate Bloomsday (however inadvertently), we decided to make our first foray in the work of James Joyce. His debut novel riffs on themes and cha...

Ep 652 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes you read a book from 1940 and you get a little upset about how relevant its characters and themes remain more than 80 years later. Sometimes...

Ep 651 - The House of Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Often grouped with the other plays in García Lorca's unfinished "rural trilogy," The House of Bernarda Alba is a claustrophobic drama about control, ...

Ep 650 - The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4)

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Percy Jackson and friends are back for the penultimate entry in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. This installment in Rick Riordan's mytholo...

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 5 & 6 (Books 10-14)

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 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...

Ep 649 - Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we travel back to Bois Sauvage to revisit the work of acclaimed author Jesmyn Ward. Sing, Unburied, Sing introduces us to a family on hard t...

Ep 648 - Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill and Rosa Lee Beeland (Bonus Episode)

18 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're learning how to THINK AND GROW RICH with our good frenemy Napoleon Hill!To join us for future bonus recordings, head to patreon.com/overdue...

Ep 647 - I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Isaac Asimov's short story collection-turned-novel has very little to do with the mid-2000s Will Smith movie adaptation, which is a good thing. It's a...

Ep 646 - A Bear Called Paddington, by Michael Bond

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"We just found this bear at the train station and he seems cool? Like he's good at shopping and staring at people. Let's bring him home! Don't mind al...

Ep 645 - Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that before Gillian Flynn brought us the book Gone Girl, the movie Gone Girl, and the concept of "Gone Girl-ing" someone, she wrote a mur...

Ep 644 - Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This graphic memoir (ahem) This collection of comics chronicles the life of an Iranian girl named Marji, whose experiences are heavily based on those ...

Ep 643 - Holes, by Louis Sachar

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Holes! We all need 'em, we all love 'em. This is a book where a boy is sentenced to dig a bunch of holes out in the desert because he was accused and ...

Ep 642 - Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lo's award-winning novel seeks to shine a light on marginalized experiences from mid-century San Francisco. What's most impressive is how she's synthe...

Ep 641 - CliffsNotes, by Clifton Hillegass

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, one of our hosts reads a book and tells the other person (and you, the audience) about it. This week's book is about the topic of war and ...

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 3 & 4 (Books 5-9)

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 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...

Ep 640 - Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The first rule of podcasting is DON'T TALK ABOUT PODCASTING. The second rule of podcasting is please tell everyone about podcasting and specifically a...

Ep 639 - There There, by Tommy Orange

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There There sets itself apart by being a book by and about indigenous Americans in an explicitly contemporary, urban setting. It's also got a neat per...

Ep 638 - The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew #4), by Carolyn Keene (Bonus Episode)

16 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus episode was recorded on LEAP DAY! So we leapt into The Mystery at Lilac Inn with our good friend young sleuth Nancy Drew! Let's play some H...

Ep 637 - The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 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 Eng...

Ep 636 - The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Modern 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 ...

Ep 635 - Jazz, by Toni Morrison

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Toni Morrison’s second novel in her beloved Beloved trilogy, Jazz introduces the reader to a trio of characters united by an incident of tragic roma...

Ep 634 - The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3), by Rick Riordan

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Percy Jackson returns for another road trip across a mythological United States. Plenty of new characters are introduced -- and some of them survive!T...

Ep 633 - Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5), by Martha Wells

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our 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 ...

Ep 632 - Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #2), by Tamsyn Muir

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To 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...

Ep 631 - The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An 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 bo...

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 1 & 2 (Books 1-4)

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 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...

Ep 630 - Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Move along, everyone. Nothing to see here. No women navigating adult friendships and their identities as parents. No jabs at men in power who work ove...

Ep 629 - The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen (Bonus Episode)

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Time 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 recording...

Ep 628 - The Witch Elm, by Tana French

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 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 ...

Ep 627 - Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Banned 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 exp...

Ep 626 - The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Happy 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 c...

Ep 625 - Her Night With Santa, by Adriana Herrera

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You 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 Sant...

Ep 624 - Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This generation-spanning epic explores the experience of a Korean family living in Japan throughout (most of) the 20th century. We talk about Lee's us...

Ep 623 - Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Despite being fairly well-versed in 20th-century fantasy, Mervyn Peake and his Gormenghast series has flown completely under our radar until now. It's...

Sand by Me: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - Books 9 & 10

09 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our previous show-within-a-show concludes! In this longread project, we worked our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMA...

Ep 622 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 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 techn...

Ep 621 - All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1), by Martha Wells

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When 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 M...

Ep 620 - The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2), by Rick Riordan

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Percy Jackson and his pals are back in another mythology-packed middle-grade adventure story, this time (mostly) patterned after the voyages of our ol...

Ep 619 - The Stranger, by Albert Camus

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mssr. Merseault only likes a few things, unfortunately he must live his life doing plenty of other things for people he doesn't particularly care abou...

Ep 618 - A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny (Bonus Episode)

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What 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 ...

Ep 617 - Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros (w/ Heaving Bosoms!)

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We 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 ...

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episode 0

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For 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...

Ep 616 - The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Based 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 ea...

Ep 615 - Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How would the "breakdown" phase of an apocalypse novel function if the characters involved had already survived through multiple apocalypses? That's t...

Ep 614 - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if H.G. Well's classic tale of humanimals created by a mad scientist were recontextualized in southeast Mexico? Would you find yourself saying th...

Ep 613 - The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H.G. Wells

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If 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...

Ep 612 - Cackle, by Rachel Harrison (w/ Natasha from UNspoiled!)

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome 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 b...

Sand By Me: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - Books 7 & 8

30 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our current show-within-a-show! We're working our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon suppor...

Ep 611 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This novel was the genesis of the Blade Runner film franchise, which means like many books it gets eclipsed a bit by its adaptation. But does the movi...

Ep 610 - Moneyball, by Michael Lewis (Bonus Episode)

23 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to talk about market efficiencies in popular non-fiction aka the work of Michael Lewis. Specifically, we're chatting about his 2003 book MON...

Ep 609 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson (w/ Strong Sense of Place)

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This "Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream" is a landmark of Gonzo journalism, a sensational writing style of which Thompson is the OG....

Ep 608 - I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if you got playing cards in the mail? Playing cards that told you to help random people in your community? Would you do it? Could you do it? What...

Ep 607 - Slammed, by Colleen Hoover (w/ The Worst Bestsellers)

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our friends Renata and Kait are back to talk with us about Colleen Hoover and her debut novel Slammed. We dive into her recent reign as Queen of BookT...

Ep 606 - Where Are The Children? by Mary Higgins Clark

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to meet the Queen of Suspense! To kick off her reign, Mary Higgins Clark spins a tale about a wrongfully accused women trying to reinvent he...

Ep 605 - Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You don't end up liking everyone by the end of Madame Bovary, but in kind of a funny way? Come for the book talk, stay for the butchered French pronun...

Ep 604 - The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Who is Mr. Benedict? And why did he recruit four outstanding orphans to uncover and stop a madman's secret plot to takeover the world? Solve the puzzl...

Ep 603 - Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When a book's plot and characters don't break a ton of ground in and of themselves, you're left hoping that the writing and the perspective will be en...

Ep 602 - Sharpe's Eagle (Richard Sharpe #1), by Bernard Cornwell

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bring on the battalion of Dad Books! Cornwell started writing the Richard Sharpe novels because he wanted something like Horatio Hornblower on land. W...

Sand By Me: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - Books 5 & 6

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're working our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon support...

Ep 601 - An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a version of the spaceship from Wall-E, but with racial and class divisions that mirror those in our own society. That's a (dramatically overs...

Ep 600 - The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1), by Rick Riordan

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's episode 600, baybee!!! To celebrate, we're embarking on a voyage through Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, some middle-grade...

Ep 599 - Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack Vol 1, by Jim Davis

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking Mondays. We're talking lasagna. We're talking annoying dogs and bumbling owners. We're talking Lyman -- wait what? Join us as we dive in...

Ep 598 - A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? If you're a wizard of Earthsea, you can make it smell however you want if you know it's TRUE name. LeGu...

Ep 597 - The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We've covered vaguely spiritual self-help books before on the show, but The Alchemist is unique insofar as it attempts to wrap the broad platitudes of...

Ep 596 - The Roaches Have No King, by Daniel Evan Weiss

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our Patron's Choice Poll for June had a theme: Junebugs! And this novel by Weiss about a roach colony attempting to assert control over the apartment ...

Ep 595 - Summerwater, by Sarah Moss

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's summer, and we all need water to live, two things that make Sarah Moss's Summerwater feel timely this week. One other thing the book reflects is ...

Ep 594 - Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Gulliver, a traveling English surgeon. First he's big, then he's small. Next he's wise, then he's a Yahoo! To wit, Swift's seminal satire is real...

Ep 593 - Less, by Sean Andrew Greer

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s book tackles aging and writing and the author’s determination to write a book about a gay character who is allowed to experience joy. ...

Ep 592 - Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin #1), by Patrick O'Brian

29 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Flog the jib and shiver me timbers, it's time to set sail with the first of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels Master and Commander. It's equal...

Sand By Me: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - Books 3 & 4

27 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're working our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon support...

Ep 591 - The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week: a non-fiction book that sometimes reads a lot like fiction, The Orchid Thief is only a little about the titular thief and a LOT about Flori...

Ep 590 - Super Mario Bros (1993) The Novelization, by Todd Strasser (Bonus Episode)

20 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mamma Mia! Let's-a go back to the 1990s and discuss Todd Strasser's novelization of the 1993 film adaptation of the Super Mario Bros. videogame franch...

Ep 589 - Carry On (Simon Snow #1), by Rainbow Rowell

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This novel about a wizarding school and its teen magicians feels like the finale of a series that you've heard about but haven't read. Which is...sort...

Ep 588 - Several People Are Typing, by Calvin Kasulke

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Several People Are Typing was mostly written pre-pandemic but failed to garner publisher interest until a virus locked us all inside our homes with no...

Ep 587 - The Going to Bed Book (and Other Stories), by Sandra Boynton

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate this year's Children's Book Week, we decided to discuss the work of children's author and illustrator Sandra Boynton, whose board books w...

Ep 586 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're talking about candy for the second week in a row, but this time the candy is literal, and the building is a factory and not a house. Willy Wonka...

Ep 585 - The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It only took 500-or-so episodes to revisit the world of Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. We did, of course, have to wa...

Ep 584 - All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week's book is all about duality: science against magic, love vs. hurt, book about middle school alienation and also near-future climate apocalyp...

Ep 583 - Normal People, by Sally Rooney (w/ Vanessa Zoltan)

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Vanessa Zoltan from the podcasts Harry Potter & the Sacred Text and Hot & Bothered joins us to chat about Sally Rooney, her 2018 no...

Ep 582 - O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

O podcast! O books! O episodes about hard-scrabble immigrants eking out an existence on tough Nebraska land. Cather's work - rich in memorable prose a...

Sand By Me: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - Books 1 & 2

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're working our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon support...

Ep 581 - Heidi, by Johanna Spyri

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Heidi, Heidi, Heidi! Everyone's talking about this adorable ragamuffin, a precocious child who lights up every life she touches like a ray of God's pe...

Do Overdue: Ep 580 - Ghost Train, by Louise Munro Foley (Bonus Episode)

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

WE FIND OURSELVES SHOOK BY THIS ROLLICKING RATTLING RIDE ALONG THE RAILS OF THE GHOST TRAIN.This bonus episode was part of our Do Overdue 10th Anniver...

Ep 579 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We finally read a play by Volunteer State Williams! Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a rumination on a family falling apart in the South. It's also an interes...

Ep 578 - This Is How You Lose The Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a twist on a time travel story where the relationship between two enemies-turned-frenemies-turned-lovers takes center stage, leaving the actua...