Ep 769 - Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein's sci-fi classic is rather different from the campy satire of Paul Verhoeven's 1997 adaptation. You can ask similar questions of bo...
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Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy murd...
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20 of 839 episodesThe Sillymarillion Ep 04 - The Black Gate Opens (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published leg...
Ep 768 - Retro, by Jessica M. Goldstein
They'll never write a time travel story that Andrew won't try! This week's riff on the formula includes megalomaniac tech billionaires, mill...
Ep 767 - Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
Shhhh...this episode is confidential. The kitchen secrets divulged by bad boy chef Anthony "Tony" Bourdain will Rock Your World. Or will the...
Ep 766 - Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay
This classic of twentieth-century Australian literature isn't a Whodunnit. It isn't a Howdunnit. It's barely a dunnit at all. It's a certifi...
Ep 765 - Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3), by Tamsyn Muir (w/ Meghan Winch)
Do you like lesbian necromancer space operas but find all the grieving, brooding, and in-fighting a bit hard to sift through? Well then do I...
The Prydainger Zone Ep 00 - Lloyd Alexander and his Chronicles, an introduction
For this new show-within-a-show, Andrew and Craig will learn all about The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. We'll read the five boo...
Ep 764 - Waist Deep, by Linea Maja Ernst
This is a book about what happens when a formerly tight-knight group of longtime friends rents a house in the woods for a week. Having to de...
Ep 763 - Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree
This story is a giant bag of cotton candy, which we mean mostly as a compliment. It's a romance-adjacent found family story set in a cozy co...
Ep 762 - Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
Is it a novel? A collection of stories? A story cycle? A monograph?? It doesn't matter. This one's an award-winner. Strout's a masterful epi...
Stop! Homer Time: The Odyssey (2026)
Sing, O Muse, of an adapted poem - specifically Homer's Odyssey as adapted for the silver screen by filmmaker Christopher Nolan. That's righ...
Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Chatting with Emily Wilson
With the recent release of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and buzz around Emily Wilson's translation of Homer, we thought we would unlock t...
Ep 761 - On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), by Solvej Balle
Welcome to the 18th of November, friends! What's that you say? It's not the 18th of November for you? Well it is for us! Over and over and o...
Ep 760 - The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison's debut novel traces the tragedy of a young girl named Pecola Breedlove and the community that failed her. By splintering the...
Ep 759 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
Join us friends, for a real paradigm shift. Andrew and Craig's synergy reaches levels never before seen as they proactively seek to understa...
Ep 758 - Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom
Life is like a box of podcasts, you sort of know what you're gonna get (e.g. host-read ads, friends talking books, hot takes about books tha...
Ep 757 - Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman
New achievement! Record a podcast about Dungeon Crawler Carl! The thought of having to write flavor text in Dungeon Crawler Carl’s “achievem...
The Sillymarillion Ep 03 - Of Elves and Stewed Curses (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published leg...
Ep 756 - Private Rites, by Julia Armfield
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day--oh. You're never going away? You're going to flood the world and make it very damp for a trio o...
Ep 755 - Audition, by Katie Kitamura
Have you ever read a book where you haven't been entirely sure what happened in the book? Where you haven't been sure what's "real," and if...