We've all heard this story before—giant fish man escapes secret laboratory, giant fish man takes up with unfulfilled housewife, fish man and housewife have deeply meaningful affair, lots of people die. Tale as old as time! Suffice it to say the characters in Mrs. Caliban have a very different reaction to a giant fish than the characters in Jaws. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/overdue and get on your way to being your best self. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Follow @overduepod on Instagram and Bluesky Advertise on Overdue See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Overdue boys read Jaws by Peter Benchley.

Sometimes you just need to concoct a scheme where you encourage your casual boyfriend and your dad's casual ex-girlfriend to pretend to be in a relationship together, so that your dad gets jealous, so that he leaves his current more-serious girlfriend!

The Overdue boys discuss The Trial by Franz Kafka.

We have convened a club whose charter is to learn about The Baby-Sitters Club.

Gay anti-fascist librarians roam a speculative future version of the western United States in this week's novella.

The boys start their longread project on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion.

The Overdue boys discuss A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White.

The Overdue boys read some classic Peanuts by Charles Schulz.

We’re joined by Sammy and Emily of the TOO SCARY, DIDN’T WATCH horror movie podcast this week to talk about Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho.

Leslie Feinberg’s debut novel is an intersectional bildungsroman about Jess Goldberg, a butch lesbian navigating the constellation of oppression that was the United States in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

The Overdue boys discuss James by Percival Everett.

The Overdue boys discuss the award-winning Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.

This one's arguably based on a real historical event but with a non-real non-historical protagonist .

The Overdue boys read Joan Didion's second novel Play It As It Lays.

Booth Tarkington is one of only four authors to have won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, and he’s the only one of those four authors who nobody has ever heard of.

Everyone get into two lines, break your bread, brush your teeth, get into bed, and listen to our episode about Ludwig Bemelmans’ original series of Madeline stories.

The Overdue boys celebrate 700 episodes with a discussion of Stephenie Meyer's self-fan-fiction novel Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined.

The Overdue boys discuss Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, a collection whose titular work inspired the film Arrival.

This is the time travel book-slash-romance novel you write when you’re enamored with a hot old-timey boat guy and his doomed Arctic exploration.