Jagged Little Mill, a Don Quixote miniseries - Episodes 11 & 12

Enjoy another episode of our latest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.

These episodes cover Chapters 27-47 of Part Two.

In Episode 11, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza meet a Duke and Duchess familiar with Quixote's adventures. LARPing and pranks ensue.

In Episode 12, the Duke and Duchess continue to deceive our heroes. There's a wooden horse, a bag of cats, and a governorship (finally).

Find out more about how to get these episodes monthly at patreon.com/overduepod.

Ep 514 - The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown (w/ Appointment Television)

The former hosts of Appointment Television join us this week to talk about Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, the book version of the TV show Peacock's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. This book makes that show and all other Dan Brown books seem actually kinda better by comparison?

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Ep 513 - Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi's debut novel tracks the lasting impacts of the slave trade across multiple generations and continents, through the eyes of two half-sisters and their descendants.

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Ep 512 - The Story of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting (w/ Alli from SSR)

Where did his animal-talking abilities come from? Why is worshipped by animals all over the world? Why does this book talk about money so much? And why did so few of us read Dr. Dolittle in grade school?

This week, we tried to answer these questions (and more) with Alli from the SSR Podcast, a great show you should check out! You can also listen to our previous SSR Podcast collab: Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots with the Bailey School Kids.

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Ep 511 - Coming for Christmas (Bonus Episode), by Krystyna Allyn

Two horrible dudes double team one sexy lady in this horny, Christmas-adjacent story.

CAVEAT LICTOR: This episode is EXTREMELY explicit, so buckle up!!

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Ep 510 - The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2), by Stieg Larsson

We return to the Dragon Tattoo-niverse this week to discuss the second book of the Millennium trilogy, and to talk about each of the three dozen-or-so named characters tucked inside this book.

Need a refresher on Lisbeth and Mikke? Listen to our 500th episode on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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Ep 509 - The Art of War, by Sun Tzu

We learn the art of military strategy, deception, and fire from Michael Nylan's 2020 translation of this classic text. We start by going in-depth on the contemporary political references in Nylan's Introduction to this edition, and then we go blow-by-blow and nugget-by-inspirational-nugget through Master Sun's timeless wisdom.

Here's translator Michael Nylan writing for LitHub: "The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It."

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Ep 508 - Jennifer Government, by Max Barry

Jennifer Government is one of those near-future satirical works that probably felt a lot farther from reality back when it was originally written. Barry's predictions feel distressingly spot on here in 2021, and his prescience isn't exactly comforting.

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Ep 507 - If on a winter's night a traveler, by Italo Calvino

Sometimes a book is so meta it sort of breaks your brain! How to talk about a book that is all beginnings and no ends? How to discuss a book that enlists You, the Reader, in its chicanery? We try to get on the wavelength with Calvino's text. You be the judge of if we get there.

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Ep 506 - The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros' first novel is a collection of rapid-fire vignettes about childhood and friendship and race and America. We also check in with the darker side of our recurring guest host, the Iowa Writers Workshop.

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