Ep 260 - The Traitor, by Michael Cisco

Overdue

Headgum

Books, Literature, Craig Getting, Andrew Cunningham, Arts, Podcasts, Comedy

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

How Weird do you like your fiction? Do you dig bogeymen who eat ghosts? Narrators who repeat themselves all the time? How about soul-crushing nihilism that implicates the reader in the demise of civilization? Well then Michael Cisco's The Traitor might be the book for you!

Other discussion topics include new iPhones, Magic Eye books, and the Thong Song.

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0:00.0	This is a head gum podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	I don't have a good life anecdote from the weed to new iPhones.
0:49.2	Yeah, there are new iPhones out there.
0:54.2	There are new iPhones.
0:55.2	Well, they're on the way.
0:56.2	Right?
0:57.2	They're coming out, well, some of the two less interesting ones are coming out this
1:01.6	week.
1:02.6	The iPhone 8 and the 8 Plus.
1:04.6	Okay.
1:05.6	Then the iPhone 10, which has an X in the name, but it's pronounced 10 because bromine numerals,
1:11.8	that is out in late October or early November.
1:15.2	Welcome to Overdo podcast.
1:16.2	It's a book podcast about the books, even meaning to read, not the phones.
1:19.5	My name is Craig.
1:20.5	My name is Andrew and this is your tech update.
1:22.8	New iPhones gang, get ready.
1:26.2	That's what Andrew does when he's not reading books.
1:28.0	He knows a lot about tech and phones and stuff.
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