Ep 603 - Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

When a book's plot and characters don't break a ton of ground in and of themselves, you're left hoping that the writing and the perspective will be enough to make a book interesting—luckily for us, Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation is insightful and entertaining despite its narrow scope and well-trod material.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum 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.
0:27.3	Hey everybody, welcome to overdue.
0:43.3	It's a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
0:47.7	My name is Craig.
0:48.9	My name is Andrew.
0:50.1	And I speculate that we're going to have a fine episode today.
0:54.3	Yeah, I think based on 600 and something episodes of precedent, we usually have a good
1:00.4	time.
1:01.4	So that's a good speculation that you just made.
1:03.2	I might be opening a department soon, because I'm so good at it, speculating.
1:10.6	The formula for intros recently has been like, let's not talk about it, but both just
1:15.6	bringing the first title-based wordplay to the show that we could possibly get in
1:21.3	generis of you to even say what I what said was wordplay.
1:26.6	I just said the words in the title.
1:29.0	It's like, yeah, I mean, I played with them, not so much play, I guess, it's just like
1:33.3	word observation, word acknowledgement, because you go way back in the day, and we used
1:40.9	to be like, we used to talk about like moving for like five and we used to talk about stuff
1:45.5	that was going on.
1:46.5	You know, no, we don't.
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