Episode 110 || The Virtue of Occasional Sadness

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Lots of people asked us why we're always raving about sad books, and they weren't satisfied when we quoted Sally Sparrow and said, "It's happy for deep people." This week, Annie and Chris explain what they call "grief literature" and recommend a bunch of their favorite sad books with justifications for why you should feel sad sometimes. + Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (really, why aren't you reading this one yet?) + A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis + The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion + "The Faery Handbag" from The Faery Reel by Kelly Link + Last Things by Marissa Moss + Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart + Fun Home by Alison Bechdel + When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi + Gilead by Marilynne Robinson + The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger + Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer + The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson + Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice NEW THIS WEEK: + The Hogwarts Library (expanded) by J. K. Rowling + The Wanderers by Meg Howry + Before the War by Fay Weldon + The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo + The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy + The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Teaches Us About Living Fullyby Frank Ostaseski

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0:00.0	Did you happen to listen to this past week's episode?
0:04.3	I did not.
0:05.5	So Jordan and I recorded together and talked about March Madness.
0:09.5	I think it went great.
0:10.3	Good.
0:11.8	But something I think is funny is that I have gotten several comments that think that you and I
0:18.4	recorded the intro because they think it's your laugh
0:21.6	at the beginning. It's definitely Jordan's laugh. But they think, like, I just recorded an intro
0:27.2	with you. And people emailed asking, like, why was Chris in the intro? Emily McKin, like, came to me,
0:33.4	and she was like, so wait, was that Chris at the beginning? And then Jordan, the rest of the episode.
0:36.9	No, I was not there at all.
0:38.3	No, I did say, Chris is never here today because it's a quote from the office.
0:45.1	You're always here.
0:46.1	But I clarified that it was a quote from the office.
0:49.2	Jordan laughed.
0:49.9	That's what's important.
0:50.9	Right.
0:51.2	That's good.
1:01.2	Music that's what's important. Right. That's good. Welcome to episode 110 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small
1:06.1	business, and life in the south.
1:07.9	My name is Chris Jensen, and I'm going to talk about books today.
1:10.5	And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
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