*Three* Lives? In this economy?

"Those who are creating the modern composition authentically are naturally only of importance when they are dead because by that time the modern composition having become past is classified and the description of it is classical." - Gertrude Stein, Composition as Explanation

Ep 740 - Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein

@overduepod.bsky.social Andrew: Watch Akira in dub or sub? Us from the trenches: Well, actually, the debate is between the Streamline dub or the original Pioneer dub.

Tokyo Drifters Ep 0 - Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo An introduction to our next longread project is on the main feed! To hear this show-within-a-show as it drops, head to patreon.com/overduepod for more! overduepodcast.com/episodes/202...

We read these so you don't have it, but if you must: archive.org/details/elso...

''There's nothing these book children do that a child couldn't remember having done themselves,'' Miss Sharp once told an interviewer. ''They made the books part of themselves. We made reading easy for them and encouraged them to read more.'' - From Zerna Sharp's 1981 obituary

Ep 739 - Fun with Dick and Jane, and Other Stories

His exploits *are* glorious!

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 07 - Jessi's Secret Language (The Baby-sitters Club #16)

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"I was tired of ancient Greek characters sounding as if they’ve stepped out of a Merchant Ivory production...The Greek world wasn’t a monoculture: you’ve got different dialects, different classes, immigration, a massive slave trade. The language was a way to try to capture some of that difference."

(this thought brought to you by a B&N display in the western suburbs of Phila, but also by the good guys at @overduepod.bsky.social and their dedication to lifting up works newly in the public domain)

Ep 738 - Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

Agatha (Christie) all along — starting way back at episode 66. overduepodcast.com/episodes/201...

"Bit of a bore, but you don't kill someone for that. If you did, there'd be no one left in the village!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVss...

When you know the vicar will need your help every 3-5 chapters via your powers of observation and cryptic bon mots

ahem 🎶Agatha Christie Made up a neat cozy murder that no one could guess. Who would confess? Vicar Len Clement Works with Miss Marple to find out the killer's ID Who could it be? All the Christie mysteries Whodun all of these crimes? All the Christie mysteries Who will get killed this time?🎶

Ep 737 - The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1) by Agatha Christie

Want to know the other endings? Choose Your Own Consequences with this online version: geetheriot.itch.io/consider-the...

Consider the consequences....of not knowing the reading schedule for January

Ep 736 - Consider the Consequences! by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins

ICYMI: An episode about some different American girls also hit our main feed

"The American Girl doll was invented in the 1980s by [a] former grade-school teacher and news anchor in her mid-40s named Pleasant Rowland, during a visit to Colonial Williamsburg...Missing from the Barbie-and-baby-doll eighties play landscape was a doll for little girls who was herself a child."

Ep 735 - American Girl: Meet Samantha, by Susan S. Adler, and Meet Addy, by Connie Porter

More like a daily thing in one particular household

I mean Krampus is immortal so

Merry merry

Happy Hornydays messaging at the dollar store. It’s just that this year, his secrets are undead revenants and evil intentions.

This made me scream-laugh multiple times. It may be the best hornydays episode yet (don't listen around children or your parents, obviously).

Classic

My favorite episode of the year! It’s like letting the animaniacs out of the tower for one night only

Illustrators are great!

Apropos of nothing

Ep 734 - Kidnapped by the Krampus. Happy Hornydays to all and to all a good night.

"Fitzgerald retains an instantly recognizable voice while veering across a wide range of subjects. The breadth of her knowledge, the lucidity of her intelligence and the quirkiness of her characters provide the satisfaction of a 19th-century novel, yet there is nothing musty about any of her books."

Yippee-ki-yay Overduer

The wet climate of Hardborough simply cannot be good for her.

Ep 733 - The Bookshop, by Penelope Fitzgerald

“My personal feeling was that all wars are bad and can be prevented by intelli gent and compassionate leadership,” [Trumbo] says, “but that once a war is engaged in, it is possible to take sides. I felt that World War II was a moral war from our point of view, one that should be won.”

Metallica providing the soundtrack for this week's episode www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8b...

Brb coming up with some unicorn voices

Ep 732 - Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo

tune in to this week’s @overduepod.bsky.social to hear me comprehend a particular Aerosmith lyric for the very first time

It's the most wonderful time of the year (Happy Hornydays, obviously)

“I had to be hurt into novel writing…I had to have a lot of ego pounded out of me and pride, I had to learn compassion. I had to do enough vile things that I hated myself, and then was forgiven, so that I had something to write about that wasn’t about how other people perceived me.” - Louise Penny

Ep 731 - Still Life (Inspector Gamache #1) by Louise Penny

We named our fists Dante and Alighieri because they’ll take you to the ninth circle of Hell

“'If you’re excited to read great canonized fiction, then awesome,' says [Andrew] Cunningham [yes, our Andrew Cunningham]. 'But if you’re excited to read an enemies-to-lovers romance or a book where people ride dragons, that’s what you should read.'” We enjoyed chatting for this article!