Episodes
The Overdue boys sing the song of the angriest boy Achilles.
Published 11/25/24
Published 11/25/24
Misanthropy, anxiety, and societal alienation? In this economy??
Published 11/18/24
The Overdue boys learn about all the animals that hear the Wind in the Willows.
Published 11/11/24
It's election season here in the US (please go vote if you're reading this on November 4th or 5th)! And to uh "celebrate" we have chosen to put together a one-hour-and-forty-five-minute episode on Dan Gutman's 1996 book The Kid Who Ran For President.
Published 11/04/24
The Overdue boys discuss Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs while enjoying some "fava" beans and a nice chianti.
Published 10/28/24
I Am Legend is a foundational block for a lot of modern zombie fiction (even though its monsters are technically vampires).
Published 10/21/24
The boys from Overdue discuss Cassandra Khaw's novella NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH.
Published 10/14/24
Tender Is The Flesh is about a cannibal dystopia, where people eat other people and where maybe we draw some parallels between how Special Meat is treated and how real-world non-special meat is treated.
Published 10/07/24
The Overdue boys launch a new longreads miniseries on The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin.
Published 10/05/24
Love is Patient, love is kind, love is English, love is listening to Overdue.
Published 09/30/24
The Overdue boys host a bonus episode about Pokémon: The First Movie (the novelization).
Published 09/28/24
The best-known version of A Clockwork Orange might be Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, which is based on a version of the story that is missing its last chapter.
Published 09/23/24
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 books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. These two episodes cover Books 15-19
Episode 7: Things start heating up in books 15 and 16, as Achilles finally sort of acknowledges that there's a war on and Patroclus rides out to meet his fate.
Episode 8: Now that we've bid Patroclus goodbye, it's time...
Published 09/21/24
The Overdue boys discuss The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - a classic novella about education, identity, and womanhood.
Published 09/16/24
Atwood's Penelopiad asks: what was Penelope up to? What did she want? What if the Homeric version of Odysseus' story isn't the true one? And what if Penelope's version isn't either?
Published 09/09/24
The Overdue boys discuss Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
Published 09/02/24
The Overdue boys close out Rick Riordan's five-part Percy Jackson series with The Last Olympian.
Published 08/26/24
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 every field trip is actually a fantastical voyage through time and space.
Published 08/19/24
The boys from Overdue discuss Haruki Murakami's bestseller Norwegian Wood.
Published 08/12/24
Cats form societies and fight for survival in this Watership Down-esque introduction to the Warrior Cats series.
Published 08/05/24
The Overdue boys read James McBride's refreshing historical novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
Published 07/29/24
Emily Henry's Beach Read is a romance novel that's light on the romance, and also on beaches and reading.
Published 07/22/24
The Overdue boys return to the world of Garfield and his 9 lives.
Published 07/20/24
Join the Overdue boys in discussing Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Published 07/15/24
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