BONUS: Winter Institute 2020

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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SURPRISE! We know it’s Tuesday, but we thought you’d enjoy this bonus episode of FTFP, where Annie and Olivia debrief about Winter Institute, an annual conference held for members of the American Booksellers Association. Here’s a link to “Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores,” by Ryan Raffaelli. Some books Annie brought home: The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg The Harpy by Megan Hunter Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West A Good Family by A.H. Kim Broken People by Sam Lansky Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix Siri, Who Am I? by Sam Tschida From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free shipping on all your online orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here on Thursday.

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:07.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, And today I'm joined for this bonus episode
0:14.7	by a bookshelf manager Olivia Schaefer.
0:17.3	Together we're going to recap Winter Institute 2020. I didn't know whether to say yay or hey so it was just both.
0:35.0	Actually it is the same when you put it together.
0:38.0	So it works.
0:39.0	I'm back after such a long time.
0:42.0	It felt like years. I mean we were fine here. Yes you
0:46.7	guys are great. I felt like at one point I think it was Friday I went back to my hotel room and I was like I live here now.
0:55.4	Like I felt stuck. I felt like I was never going to leave this hotel.
0:58.7	When you're in a hotel for more than like I would say one or two nights.
1:02.1	Yes. Like do I unpack my thing? Yes, that's exactly right and it wasn't a vacation. So it was really weird like it's a long time to be gone not for fun. Does that make sense? Yeah, so anyway, I'm back. Basically, before we get into it,
1:17.6	the American Book Sellers Association puts on a couple of events every year. One is Book Expo, which has really become kind of both for booksellers, but also really for readers and books to grammars and influencers. And then they do Winter Institute, which is specifically for booksellers, bookstores, and managers.
1:37.0	And it rotates where it is. I have been to one in Asheville, one in Memphis, and this one was in Baltimore and so I was gone for several days and I learned a lot yeah several days and
1:50.5	so let's talk about it yeah Olivia and I have barely debriefed so this is you're getting this in real time
1:55.2	yeah this is good for all of us okay I want to know about the Penguin Random House
2:00.9	tour because it looked like the Hall of Prophecies from
2:04.4	Harry Potter. I did. I did walk around and really did. There were a couple of moments at
2:10.2	Winter Institute where I was like, oh Olivia is is really going to want to know what happened.
2:13.9	And what was interesting, so the Penguin Random House warehouse is in or right outside Baltimore.
2:21.6	And they have seven different buildings. One building holds
2:26.4	34,000 pallets of books and I did pull the I pulled the tour guide aside and was like did you mean 3,400 she was like no no
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