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Episode 29: Inception to Bone
Sheely and Wrather examine how Tony got his groove back.
Reading by the Rules
Pixar’s Up: Paradise Lost at Paradise Falls
Paper or Plastic, Mr. Updike?
Guest writer Trevor Siegler offers a personal appreciation of literary giant John Updike, who died Tuesday.
All Work and No Play: Own It Today!
A while ago, I wrote a review of the book Jack Torrance writes during The Shining. Now Overthinking It reader Phil Buehler has kicked things up a notch by actually producing the book.
My favorite passage from Horatio Alger’s 1867 novel “Ragged Dick”
A review of the novel Jack Nicholson writes in The Shining
Cthulhu’s Greatest Mystery
What is Cthulhu, really? Why are the Great Old Ones here on Earth, and what are their plans? These are some of the great mysteries that have been haunting us since H.P. Lovecraft first introduced his Cthulhu mythos in the…
John Philip Sousa, novelist
First of all, if you ever intended to sit down on a beach somewhere and enjoy John Philip Sousa’s 1902 novel The Fifth String, stop reading now. This is going to be a spoiler-heavy review. (If you do want to…