Episode 113 || A Literary Mixtape

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Annie try to bring this weekend's Word of [South] festival to you! In miniature concept, anyway. How does one go about pairing books and music? Also, "Skeezy John Mayer," Annie feels self-conscious about her [good] taste, and Chris takes his philosophy outfits out of storage. > Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists + Solange's A Seat at the Table> F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby + The Postal Service's Give Up> Shauna Niequist's Bittersweet + Ellie Holcomb's Red Sea Road (BONUS--or Sufjan Stevens's Seven Swans OR Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City) > Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus + Bright Eyes's The People's Key or The Decemberists's The King is Dead> J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy + I'm With Her > Arcade Fire's The Suburbs + literally any coming of age novel > Aldous Huxley's Brave New World + Childish Gambino's Because the Internet> Wiley Cash + Birdtalker's Just This> Donna Tartt's The Secret History + Aronofsky's Black Swan> James McBride + Leon Bridges's Coming Home> David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas + Fleetwood Mac's Rumours> Emma Straub's Modern Lovers + John Mayer Thank you so much for all of the reviews! Keep them coming. There might be something good in it for you... If you're interested in Bookshelf-branded shirts, hats, stickers, or coffee, check out our online store at http://www.bookshelfthomasville.com/shop/

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0:00.0	I have a fun fact.
0:03.8	Do tell.
0:04.9	So Jordan and I have been listening slash watching,
0:08.9	watching mainly, Seinfeld.
0:12.2	And I also gave up scrolling Instagram and Twitter for Lent.
0:16.4	Okay.
0:17.2	So when I get on Instagram, I'm like, I post my picture and get right back off, whatever.
0:22.4	So the other night, I woke up at like 2.30 a.m., which is unusual for me.
0:27.0	I normally sleep through no problem, but my brain would not stop.
0:29.8	So I was like, what can I do?
0:31.4	I can't scroll the internet.
0:33.5	Not allowed to scroll.
0:34.3	I can't scroll Instagram.
0:35.8	So I decided to read the Wikipedia article on Seinfeld.
0:40.0	I learned so many interesting things.
0:42.3	There are a lot of interesting things.
0:44.0	Yes.
0:45.0	I've watched through Seinfeld many, many a time, so I'm curious.
0:47.0	Okay.
0:48.0	So one interesting thing I learned was that Tina Fey's character on 30 Rock
0:54.7	is based on
0:56.1	real life Julia Louis Dreyfus.
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