Ep A02 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (Annotated) — Overdue Our stroll down memory lane continues this week, but we come provisioned with Present-Day Overdue research and context. This week, 2026 Andrew and Craig talk about Mary Shelley and the legacy of her m...

Ep A02 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (Annotated)

Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star Wars wouldn’t have existed without it. Frank Herbert’s Dune should endure as a politically relevant ...

"Dune is the paradigmatic fantasy of the Age of Aquarius. Its concerns – environmental stress, human potential, altered states of consciousness and the developing countries’ revolution against imperialism – are blended together into an era-defining vision of personal and cosmic transformation."

Ep A01 - Dune, by Frank Herbert (Annotated) — Overdue We're revisiting our past this month, adding Present-Day Overdue research and context to a few old episodes that didn't have them. This week, 2026 Andrew and Craig talk about Frank Herbert and the ext...

Ep A01 - Dune, by Frank Herbert (Annotated)

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April 2026 Schedule: Relive Classic Episodes with Enhanced Research Editions! 4.6 - Special Collections: Twilight (2008) | 4.13 - Dune by Frank Herbert (Annotated Edition) | 4.20 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Annotated Edition) | 4.27 - Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Annotated Edition) | Tokyo Drifters: Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo

April Schedule: Annotated Edition

Ep 300 - Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer — Overdue We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate our 300th episode than with a *biting* discussion of Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster hit Twilight . Will klutzy cipher Bella Swan and perfect baseballboy...

Listen to the episode about the book that led to the episode about the movie:

Special Collections: Twilight (2008) — Overdue This isn't a belated April Fool's joke. We really did watch the movie Twilight, and we're really here to talk about it. Why are Edward and Bella SO strange? How is it that all of the side characters c...

Special Collections: Twilight (2008)

Ep 748 - MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker and W.C. Heinz — Overdue MASH is the book that inspired the movie that inspired the show M*A*S*H, which is set in an active war zone but doesn't have a ton to say about war. If you wanted to read about the exploits of a bunch...

ICYMI last week while everyone was traveling, so no one was posting:

Birthplace Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles To Be Commemorated Mirage Studios was an American comic book company founded in 1983 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in Dover, New Hampshire. Best known for the Teenage

“It was called Mirage Studios because, as Kevin Eastman put it, ‘there wasn't an actual studio, only kitchen tables and couches with lap boards.’”

Ep 747 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 1, by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird — Overdue Before everyone's favorite heroes in a half-shell wore brightly colored bandanas and ate pizza for every meal, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were black-and-white underground vigilantes. Eastman and...

Ep 747 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 1, by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird

Interview with Maud Woolf (THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK) | Fantasy-Hive We welcome back Maud Woolf to the Hive, for a chat with Nils about her upcoming debut, THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK, out next week from Angry Robot!

"I was very aware when I was writing the novel that there would be a different, much bleaker way to approach the subject matter...I felt like I was trying to thread the needle with my tone—I didn’t want to make light of serious subject matter but I didn’t want to make people feel miserable either."

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POV: You are Lulabelle Prime in the book or Craig Prime in the podcast about the book

The Classic Celtic Spread: How I Use Tarot Cards As a Tool In My Writing – Maud Woolf Guest Post Hello and welcome to this Track of Words guest post, where I’m delighted to be joined by Maud Wood – author of Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock, which is out today from Angry Robot! It so…

"I used tarot as both inspiration and as a way of structuring the story. I knew my protagonist would be the last clone of a series...13 clones, 13 chapters, 13 cards; having this clear skeleton in place made everything else easy and the words came faster than anything I’ve ever written before."

Ep 746 - Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock, by Maud Woolf — Overdue This week we've commissioned all thirteen of our clones to record thirteen other versions of this podcast, because we're just such busy guys that we can't do them all ourselves. So are you listening t...

Ep 746 - Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf

We can’t help you for Train Dreams (haven’t covered any Denis Johnson yet) or Bugonia (a remake of a movie, which is not, by definition, a book). They’re both pretty short; if you start them right this second on mute while listening to those three episodes, you’ll be caught up by showtime.

Ep 319 - Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon — Overdue What can be said about Thomas Pynchon's postmodern classic Gravity's Rainbow ? Well, it's nearly a thousand pages long so what CAN'T be said, am I right?? Join us for a slightly longer than normal c...

We haven’t done Vineland (One Battle After Another), but we have done another Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow, episode 319.

Ep 451 - Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell — Overdue "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember." Maggie O'Farrell's prize-winning novel  Hamnet  (published as Hamnet & Judith in Canada) is one of remembrance --...

Fast forward in episodes but backwards in history but forward again in publication: Hamnet was episode 451.

Ep 018 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley — Overdue "You know Frankenstein's the name of the doctor, not the monster -  right?  " Despite decades of metal bolts and flat green foreheads muddying the waters, Mary Shelley's original  Fran...

It’s Oscar’s day! Didn’t have time to read all the books that were sources for some of the Adapted Screenplays? We’ve got you!

First up: Frankenstein, all way back at episode 18

Morrie: Lessons On Living (with Ted Koppel) -1 YouTube video by Mandy Lai

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I AM LISTENING ON A TUESDAY - Tuesdays with @overduepod.bsky.social. ❤️

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Tuesdays with Overdue

Ep 745 - Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom — Overdue I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and - wait, Morrie's here. Tuesday's not so bad after all! Mitch Albom's breakthrough account of his meetings with the late Morrie Schwartz includes some ...

Ep 745 - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Charles Yu With his signature humor, author Charles Yu deconstructs the “lecture” genre and by doing so reveals profound insights into what it means to be human.

I got to see Yu talk at @literary-arts.org last year—it was like an hour long stand-up show. So good! This is the audio, which isn’t as funny if you can’t see his visuals, but still worth a listen. literary-arts.org/archive/char...

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Charles Yu - The Talks “Sci-fi was a way of being transported to a different reality, or of gaining a new perspective on this reality.” “I had no idea what I was doing and I had no idea that I had no idea. I was just kind o...

“There’s such a lack of seeing Asian American role models in American media, especially like Bruce Lee—an action hero and an icon, really. So I remember feeling, “He’s ours.” There was this special attachment to Bruce Lee and to the idea of being a kung fu fighter, and…that felt like our own thing.”

That’s not true. But Older Brother did disappear/go all the way to law school to avoid an interview with Chotiner.

The March reading schedule: 3.2 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu | 3.9 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom | 3.16 Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maid Woolf | TMNT: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 1 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker

March comes in like a book podcast

Ep 744 - Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu — Overdue This week's book examines the Asian-American experience through the age-old phenomenon of Hollywood typecasting. And there's an intentionally porous line that separates this book's "reality" from the ...

Ep 744 - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 08 - Welcome to the BSC, Abby! (The Baby-Sitters Club #90) — Overdue We jump way ahead in the sequence of the series (but not in the lives of our sitters, who remain stubbornly trapped in the Eighth Grade Time Loop), well into the books' ghostwritten era. This week we ...

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 08 - Welcome to the BSC, Abby! (The Baby-Sitters Club #90)