Ep 443 - Lovecraft Country, by Matt Ruff (Bonus Episode)
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Matt Ruff's 2016 novel about two Black families fighting the forces of evil riffs on Lovecraftian fiction by focusing in on the cosmic horror that is America's racist past, present, and future. We dive into each of the interconnected stories and spend some time comparing the overall vibe to that of HBO's recent TV adaptation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | 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. |
| 0:43.4 | It's a podcast where the books you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:46.4 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:47.6 | My name is Andrew. |
| 0:51.7 | You, whoa. |
| 0:53.6 | Bum, bum, bum, bum. |
| 0:55.6 | It's a hundred western. |
| 1:05.2 | You really benefit from having a last name that ends with a ghost sound. |
| 1:11.0 | Ham? |
| 1:12.0 | No, sorry, the end of your name. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, the end of my first name. |
| 1:16.2 | It ends with ooh, like I just have Craig like a egg or a severed leg, knock him down |
| 1:24.6 | on a peg. |
| 1:25.6 | I mean, your last name though, Craig Getting. |
| 1:27.7 | You can make that work with pretty much anything. |
| 1:29.8 | That's true. |
| 1:30.8 | I run my lights back up because I was getting too scared. |
| 1:32.1 | That's fine. |
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