Episode 138 || Fall Literary Lineup

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Annie's back from SIBA, and we're here to let you in on a long-distance version of the Fall Literary Luncheon we hosted in the Bookshelf last week. Here's what we're recommending for the fall! + Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward + Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng + Artemis by Andy Weir + The Senator's Children by Nicholas Montemarano + The Glass Eye by Jeannie Vanasco + Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks + Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie + My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent + Five-Carat Soul by James McBride + The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst + Grant by Ron Chernow + An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn + The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers + Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips + What Unites Us by Dan Rather Also mentioned: + Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward + Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng + The Martian by Andy Weir Support us on Patreon here. Listen to previous episodes here. Learn more about Shelf Subscriptions here. Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers. Learn more here.

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0:00.0	I just got an Instagram message that says Tom Hanks is going to start in an American remake of a man called Oofa.
0:07.6	No.
0:08.4	Yes, I'm so excited.
0:09.6	He's going to be perfect.
0:10.7	He'll be great.
0:11.9	Oh, I have to respond.
0:13.7	So exciting.
0:18.5	Because they didn't move before, right?
0:20.6	Yeah, it was a foreign film, so I'm guessing Swedish or something.
0:24.5	Probably.
0:25.4	Which I did not see, but I did hear it's on Netflix.
0:28.2	Oh, okay.
0:29.0	But I really loved that book.
0:31.0	And I love Tom.
0:32.7	I know what you love Tom Hanks.
0:34.2	I know.
0:34.9	I'm sorry.
0:35.9	He can't do any wrong.
0:38.5	Yeah. I mean, I'm sorry. He can't do any wrong. Yeah.
0:39.1	I mean, Cloud Atlas was...
0:41.0	Look, he can do wrong.
0:43.6	It's not like Sully with some fantastic piece of filmmaking.
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