Episode 126 || Politics and Prose?

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Happy Fourth from the Front Porch! Annie and Chris are here to talk about their favorite fake news--which is to say political fiction. Also, fireworks, hot dogs, and the day summer just goes downhill. New and upcoming: + The Golden House by Salman Rushdie (on sale in October) + The Senator's Children by Nicholas Montemorano (on sale in November) + Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin (on sale in August) + The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close Backlist: + Before the Fall by Noah Hawley Non-fiction: + This Town by Mark Leibovich + Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco + Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow + Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

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0:00.0	Have you ever shown up at your place of work or school and like you start second guessing what you're wearing?
0:10.0	Yes.
0:11.0	Does that happen to men?
0:12.0	Yes.
0:13.0	Yes.
0:14.0	One of my earliest memories is that showing up on the first day of first grade and like we had uniforms
0:18.5	but there were also PE uniforms and I was in the regular one and I saw other kids in the PE uniform and I like freaked out and wouldn't get out of the car like that you had shown up in the wrong
0:27.7	yeah and I didn't but why are kids shown up in their PE uniforms to school because it was like I don't know timing and work. So I bought a shirt that I liked.
0:41.4	Wore it and then realized it might have been see-through.
0:45.4	Oh.
0:48.4	Which I don't think it was like, do you watch Friends?
0:52.2	Yeah.
0:52.7	Do you know when Monica gets on stage to like sing karaoke?
0:56.5	Yes.
0:57.0	And everybody's cheering for her.
0:58.1	And she thinks it's because she's singing, but it's because she's got a see-through shirt on.
1:02.4	See-through shirt on.
1:03.2	Which she wasn't wearing undergarments, which I do not understand.
1:06.8	I was fully undergarmented.
1:10.2	That's good. But it was like just see-through in certain lighting.
1:14.6	It's like I got to the bookshelf and I asked Magalie and our new employee, Kate,
1:18.6	I was like, hey guys, do I need to wear this sweater because I think this tank top might be see-through?
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