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Ep 012 - Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
28 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Breaking a three-show "books from circa 1900" streak, Andrew tackles Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize winning Middlesex, a tale of love, incest, time...
Ep 011 - The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells
22 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
H. G. Wells' classic "scientific romance" The War of the Worlds is perhaps the earliest known example of Martian invasion fiction. Of course, it's mor...
Ep 010 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
15 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
You've probably seen the movie, but have you read the book? L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz certainly follows the same basic pattern as the...
Ep 009 - The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
08 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a good ghost story? If you said creepy children, gothic architecture, and unreliable narrators, then Henry James has you covered The Turn o...
Ep 008 - Dune, by Frank Herbert
01 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Good science fiction uses fantastical characters, locations, and technology to comment intelligently on problems that we face in the real world, but t...
Ep 007 - All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
25 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Billed as "The Greatest War Novel of All Time" on many a book jacket, All Quiet on the Western Front chronicles one soldier's harrowing experience in ...
Ep 006 - The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
18 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How would you and your family react if you awoke one morning changed into a huge bug? In our kafkaesque discussion of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Cra...
Ep 005 - Beowulf
11 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What book could possible be more overdue for a read than Beowulf, one of the oldest extant works of Anglo-Saxon literature? Join us as we revel in Beo...
Ep 004 - The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
03 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Here on Overdue, it's definitely not going to be multi-layered critiques of religion and missives on love and cholera every week. Take this book as a ...
Ep 003 - Edward Albee's Tiny Alice
25 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
When first performed on Broadway in 1964, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice frustrated and discomfited audiences with its metaphysical critiques on faith and ...
Ep 002 - Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
17 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Florentino Ariza, the ostensible protagonist of Gabriel García Márquez' Love in the Time of Cholera, has had 622 distinct sexual partners in the 51 ...
Ep 001 - Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
11 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Did you pay attention in ninth grade English? Craig did, sort of. This week he reads – or rereads, he’s not sure – John Steinbeck’s classic ta...