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Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Tweets by @AndrewWrites and @MCGetting. A @headgum podcast. Updates Mondays.

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Overdue Podcast@OverduePod
30 Dec 2023
One of our New Year's resolutions is to be on this particular site much less/not at all. You can find us on the other social medias (socials media?), now including 🟦 and 🧵, at the same handle.
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A momentous occasion and an excellent opportunity for you to join us at The Other Place, where we’re hanging out these days.
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Blowing the dust off this account for your periodic reminder that you can find us elsewhere at this same handle — no invitation needed.
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'Tis (still) the season: when you're done with Her Night with Santa, revisit Hornydays past: overduepodcast.com/episodes/…

Ep 566 - Elves with Benefits (Reindeer Falls #4), by Jana Aston — Overdue

Happy Hornydays everyone! We're back with another celebration of the winter solstice and the corresponding need to cuddle up with someone to keep warm. Come with us to a Christmas village where a...

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From the Smith-moan-ian — I mean, Smithsonian smithsonianmag.com/history/w…

In World War II America, Female Santas Took the Reins

Rosie the Riveter wasn’t the only woman who pitched in on the homefront

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Ep 625 - Her Night with Santa by Adriana Herrera Happy Hornydays, one and all! overduepodcast.com/episodes/…

Ep 625 - Her Night With Santa, by Adriana Herrera — Overdue

You can't spell Horny without Ho(-Ho-Ho)! In this year's Happy Hornydays celebration, one of the people finding love during the holiday season is Santa herself. That's right, this is an F/F steamy...

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If you watch, remember: subs not dubs youtube.com/watch?v=i_ssxNz8…

Pachinko Limited Series Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes TV

Check out the new Pachinko Limited Series Trailer starring Kim Min-...

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"It starts in 1910 and it goes until 1989, which is actually the year that I learned about the Koreans in Japan. So it's kind of a personal point of stopping...I ended it when I started." Hear Min Jin Lee talk about "Pachinko" here: youtube.com/watch?v=lvb4-uYK…

Min Jin Lee Discusses Her Acclaimed Novel "Pachinko"

Min Jin Lee talks in-depth about her 2017 National Book Award final...

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probably even more so now that he's read it, tbh
An illustration of a person standing outside a window looking in saying "Yes...Ha Ha Ha...Yes!" with the label "Craig seeing people get Pachinko as gifts over the years."

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"The answer is confidence. It’s the confidence I don’t have when I begin something. I have so much insecurity about the stuff that I don’t know, and by the time I finish my research I’m, like, Bring it." - Min Jin Lee newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…

What Min Jin Lee Wants Us to See

The author of “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires” discusses her research process, her memories of arriving in America, and why she reads the Bible before writing.

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Ep 624 - Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee overduepodcast.com/episodes/…

Ep 624 - Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee — Overdue

This generation-spanning epic explores the experience of a Korean family living in Japan throughout (most of) the 20th century. We talk about Lee's use of time, her penchant for "minor" characters,...

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Another, different, ahem:
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Our December reading list is here!
December 2023 Reading List 12/4 - Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 12/11 - Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake 12/18 - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 12/25 - Her Night with Santa by Adriana Herrera (happy hornydays) Bonus - The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

ALT December 2023 Reading List 12/4 - Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 12/11 - Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake 12/18 - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 12/25 - Her Night with Santa by Adriana Herrera (happy hornydays) Bonus - The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

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"There is an urge to view fiction of this kind as a simple allegory – for Britishness, perhaps, or for the class system – but...like a surrealist poem, it becomes its best and most powerful self when taken utterly literally." - Neil Gaiman on Gormenghast pressreader.com/uk/the-daily…
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Mervyn Peake: illustrating with words AND with...illustrations. Here's more! mervynpeake.org/novelist.htm…
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"Graham Greene helped edit Titus Groan into publishable form. Elizabeth Bowen and Anthony Burgess both thought highly of the book and Harold Bloom considered the Gormenghast trilogy the most accomplished fantasy work of the twentieth century." blackgate.com/2021/03/05/a-w…
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