Ep 435 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon
Overdue
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Michael Chabon's 2007 alternate history novel is a murder mystery featuring a hard-boiled detective, though neither the detective nor the murder mystery are the most memorable parts of it. The alternate history part, along with Chabon's prose, are enough to make up for whatever other shortcomings the novel might have.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.5 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.3 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot, it's a podcast about the books you've been meeting |
| 0:44.9 | to read. |
| 0:45.9 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:46.9 | My name is Andrew and we're here again. |
| 0:49.7 | Another week, it's us for back. |
| 0:52.7 | We are here. |
| 0:53.7 | We're going to talk about the Yiddish policeman's union by Michael Sheban, which Andrew |
| 0:58.7 | read for this show here. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah, union strong. |
| 1:04.5 | Can you real quick give me the pitch on our podcast program Andrew, how does it work? |
| 1:09.5 | Every week in this just interminable, never-ending year, one of us reads a book that we've never |
| 1:16.1 | read before and tells the other person about it. |
| 1:18.5 | Great. |
| 1:19.5 | And you, the audience, gets to come along with the right. |
| 1:21.0 | If you read along with the person who read it, then you probably have some insight or |
| 1:24.7 | some maybe things we don't mention that you yell at your radio about. |
| 1:29.3 | Yup. |
| 1:30.3 | Radio. |
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