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Overdue

Ep 311 - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead

Overdue

Headgum

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad is slave fiction with just a hint of magical realism mixed in to heighten the stakes. Whitehead uses a slightly fluid sense of time and location to better highlight the links between the institution of slavery and race in America throughout its history.

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0:00.0

This is a headgun 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

If you want to talk about your fake baseball game or are you too upset by the mistakes

0:46.4

that you've made?

0:47.4

I've made mistakes.

0:49.4

Mistakes have been made.

0:50.4

Welcome to Overdood.

0:51.4

It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.

0:53.1

My name is Craig.

0:54.1

My name is Andrew.

0:55.1

And I am playing a baseball sim.

0:57.5

I've only.

0:58.5

I've only really just learned how to play it and I'm not very good at it.

1:04.7

And it's kind of bumming me out.

1:06.4

He bought this baseball sim and it's making it more upset than any real thing.

1:10.8

I've seen make him upset in like a while.

1:14.3

Yeah.

1:15.3

So he had to explain what the difference between this and fancy baseball was and he said

1:19.0

and I quote, this is his fake baseball, not fantasy baseball.

1:24.4

It's the imagine you were playing a video game of baseball and you liked the parts where

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