This week, Flora Gill discusses why all of us will soon be unable to avoid Kim Kardashian’s nipples. Then, while we’re on the subject of divas, it’s been impossible to avoid the new memoir by Barbra Streisand. Yet there’s one problem with the book, which clocks in at almost 1,000 pages: there’s no index. No way to find out if you are one of the thousands of ... Show More
Nov 2025
Episode 268: Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the $1 Billion Lawsuit
This week, Stuart Heritage gives us his perspective on the Epstein-related lawsuit facing Melania and Donald Trump. Then Alexandra Marshall reports from France on what life is like in prison for former president Nicolas Sarkozy. And finally, Todd James Pierce reveals how Julie An ... Show More
30m 58s
Oct 2025
Episode 267: The Nuns, the Masterpiece, and a Remote Canadian Island
This week, Alessandra Stanley discusses how the Trump administration is turning away Russians seeking asylum. Then John von Sothen reveals how he learned that one of the great masterpieces of Western art has been sequestered inside a convent in remote Canada for 200 years. See Pr ... Show More
23m 45s
Oct 2025
Episode 266: From Jagger to Lennon and More—the Shop That Dressed Swinging Londoners
This week, Mark Rozzo remembers Granny Takes a Trip, the clothing store that put the swing in London’s Swinging 60s and outfitted everyone from John Lennon and Lou Reed to Mick Jagger and more. And then, as the White House continues to pressure American universities and colleges ... Show More
26m 26s
Mar 2013
Ep 004 - The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
<p>Here on Overdue, it's definitely not going to be multi-layered critiques of religion and missives on love and cholera every week. Take this book as a case in point—Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has long been a favorite punching bag of Andrew's, but in the interest of trying ne ... Show More
50m 4s
Dec 2023
It’ll Take Some Time | The Stoic Art Of Not Caring What People Think
<p>In 1922, while an unpublished, struggling writer named Ernest Hemingway was covering events in Switzerland, his wife Hadley came from Paris to see him. Assuming he would want them, she packed up the writings Hemingway had accumulated in their apartment–manuscripts, short stori ... Show More
17m 10s
Sep 2021
Who What Wear with Hillary Kerr: Cinderella and Bridgerton Costume Designer Ellen Mirojnick Tells Us How She Builds a Visual World From the Ground Up
<p>On this week’s episode, Hillary speaks with <em>Bridgerton</em> costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, who brings us behind the scenes of creating the fashion and sartorial world of <em>Shondaland </em>which—the series that broke Netflix streaming records (82 million watchers and c ... Show More
40m 58s
Jul 2019
Ep 194: No plot, no problem!
For Nicole Mattke, a clear and driving plot isn’t the most important thing. She loves beautiful, introspective writing that makes her think about everyday emotions. She also spent a year roaming a hotel, doing a job that sounds like it belongs in the pages of a novel. Today Nicol ... Show More
47m 31s
Feb 2023
Do Overdue: Ep 576 - The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
<p>For our third Do Overdue episode, we return to a book that Andrew wanted to like more than he did, Donna Tartt's debut novel about murder at a small-town college. It went better the second time, thankfully! </p>
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