Ep 506 - The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sandra Cisneros' first novel is a collection of rapid-fire vignettes about childhood and friendship and race and America. We also check in with the darker side of our recurring guest host, the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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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.
0:40.6	Hey everybody welcome to Overdoot's podcast about the books you've been meeting to read.
0:45.1	My name is Craig.
0:46.1	My name is Andrew.
0:48.6	It's December.
0:50.2	It's here.
0:51.2	December.
0:52.2	Happy Mary.
0:53.2	Happy everybody.
0:54.2	Happy Mary.
0:55.2	Happy.
0:56.2	You know, this week we don't have an ad for a certain, they haven't paid for us to talk
1:02.6	about them so I won't mention them by name but a ad for a website that helps you make
1:07.6	a website.
1:09.4	And I feel like on the weeks where we don't have one we probably should just record one
1:12.8	anyway to kind of get me in the headspace because it's like a warm up for you at this point.
1:17.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like oh you just went into the intro for the show.
1:21.6	We didn't talk, we didn't talk about the great features of this website for a while.
1:26.1	I'm really, you know, at the, I'm trying to be diligent about not knowing what you're
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