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Ep 711 - Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Gay anti-fascist librarians roam a speculative future version of the western United States in this week's novella. It's pretty close to as cool as it sounds, though the book will probably leave you wanting more in the end.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a headgum podcast.

0:05.7

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,

0:11.4

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. Hey everybody.

0:44.0

Welcome to Overdo, a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.

0:49.0

My name is Craig.

0:50.3

My name is Andrew.

0:52.1

And we are hitting the trail this week with another book, riding off into the mountains, telling stories.

1:00.6

You know, we've brought this one to you, whatever mountain you may be on, literal, figurative.

1:06.9

Whatever journey you're on, whatever post, sort of vaguely post apocalyptic possible future

1:14.2

that you're participating in that we're all participating in that we're all participating in these days

1:19.3

and yeah we've hopped on our on our horses and we're we're riding out your way

1:25.4

because it's because it's a sort of a western in here.

1:29.9

Sort of western.

1:31.0

It's called Upright Women Wanted.

1:32.6

It's by Sarah Galey.

1:35.4

And I read this book for our book podcast where every week one of us reads a book that we've never read before.

1:43.1

And we tell the other person and we tell you about it.

1:46.5

And sometimes some of us do like a little mouth music. Yeah. I'm a client of mouth music over here.

1:54.9

I was realizing I knew a little bit more of whatever that fistful of dollar song, whatever it is.

2:01.2

Yeah.

2:02.9

But it just kind of surprises me.

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