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Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Updates Mondays.

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"One of my most persistent memories is climbing a very dark, very narrow staircase at my grandmother’s house...That image has stayed with me my whole life, and even though there was something comforting at the end—my grandmother—that staircase was the first thing I pictured."

Q&A: Michelle Tang, Author of 'She Waits Where Shadows Gather' | The Nerd Daily

We chat with author Michelle Tang about She Waits Where Shadows Gather, which follows Avery and Carlos Tam who travel to his ancestral home in the Philippines and they find that darkness clings to eve...

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“I knew, intellectually, that our ideas about the past are more fantasy than reality, but it was VERY different to see people romanticize a recent past that I had actually lived through and that I remembered so well. I promise we were not thinking ‘wow, 2002 is the best time ever to be alive!!!’”

Q&A: Jessica M. Goldstein, Author of 'Retro' | The Nerd Daily

We chat with author Jessica M. Goldstein about Retro, which follows an out-of-work actress who gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past...

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"I would go to signings a few years after Kitchen Confidential came out, and people would come up to me, mostly guys, they’d high-five me over the table with one hand and slide me a packet of cocaine with the other. And it was like dude, have you not read the book?"

In the Wake of the Weinstein and John Besh Scandals, Anthony Bourdain Has Regrets

The celebrity chef reflects on his role in the abusive, male-dominated industry that made him a star.

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Now if the girls on Hanging Rock had simply done a jump to the left and then a step to the right with their hands on their hips and their knees in tight, they could have happily returned to their picnic and done the time warp again whenever they felt like it.

"Joan Lindsay herself lived a sort of time warp, born under the reign of Queen Victoria and publishing her first novel during the Vietnam War. That it’s still being read and adapted is another kind of leap through time."

What Really Happened to the Girls at Hanging Rock?

Natalie Dormer, best known as the young queen Margaery Tyrell on Game of Thrones, will star in an Australian six-part series based on Joan Lindsay’s classic 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, about…

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