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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)

Paul Beatty on His Scathing New Novel 'The Sellout' "I wanted to make myself flinch." Author Paul Beatty on race, violence and scathing satirical novel about a modern-day slave owner, 'The Sellout.'

“Maybe that’s why I wrote the book. I wanted to see if I could make myself flinch. Or see if I could slap myself silly.”

Paul Beatty on Los Angeles Lit, The Sellout, and Life After the Man Booker In 2016, Paul Beatty became the first American author to win the Man Booker Prize. Given that perhaps most readers came to know Beatty’s prose through an excerpt from his first novel published in G…

"People feel that there’s a lot of stuff to be done first [before comedy]. You have to rehumanize yourself, would be the right thing to say. You’ve got to assert your intellectual equality...That’s what people feel like you have to do. I think you can do all that and be funny at the same time."

Thanks for spending all those hours with us!

Ep 743 - The Sellout, by Paul Beatty — Overdue Paul Beatty took the Booker Prize in 2015 with this satirical novel about a grieving man’s attempts to put his small town back on the map. The book lampoons the notion of a post-racial America, touchi...

Ep 743 - The Sellout, by Paul Beatty

Our deepest condolences on today’s loss to Canadian Olympic hockey player Shane Hollander

Screenshot of a photo of a handpainted sign, showing a cheerful blue fish and the text “tuna melt: great sandwich.” Superimposed on the photo is the text: “Lies.” The photo is posted from Rachel Reid’s instagram.

This from Rachel Reid over the weekend cracked me up.

Hot sandwich, hot take!

a shirtless man is talking into a sports radio microphone Alt: Ilya saying "is lie, liar told you that"

A tuna melt is a romantic food choice

Ep 742 - Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2), by Rachel Reid — Overdue Ilya Rozanov. Shane Hollander. Two of hockey's greatest young goal scorers are also trying to score...with each other?? Reid's breakthrough hockey romance has become a true pop culture phenomenon, so ...

Ep 742 - Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

Important Strangers: A Conversation with Becky Chambers by Arley Sorg Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

"I’ve had an itch for years to do something solarpunk, and Monk & Robot is me scratching it. I can’t say that there was one big “aha” moment with this one. It’s this jumbled mix of things I like (monks and robots, for a start) and little ideas that have been bugging me for a while."

From Steampunk to Solarpunk For awhile now, I’ve had the thought that an economy based on renewable energy might return to using sailing ships as working cargo ships. Apparently some other people had the same thought, a…

Featuring a genre definition and a half-recommendation:

Ep 741 - Monk and Robot, by Becky Chambers — Overdue Usually when robots gain sentience in fiction, they rise up and slay or otherwise subjugate their human creators, but this week's book dares to imagine what might happen if they stood up, looked aroun...

Ep 741 - Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers

*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 — Overdue Three lives, all alike in indignity. Stein's debut book is a collection of stories about three working-class woman at the turn of the 20th century. In it, we see the beginnings of her unique literary ...

Ep 740 - Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein

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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 — Overdue For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will travel to Neo-Tokyo to meet Akira , created by Katsuhiro Otomo. We're going to read this classic manga across six episodes, then close out with ...

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!

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Elson Basic Readers - Pre-Primer : Elson, William H. (William Harris), 1856-1935 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Pre-primer lacks title page

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

ZERNA SHARP, 91, DIES IN INDIANA; ORIGINATED 'DICK AND JANE' TEXTS (Published 1981)

''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