Episode 181 || Baby Got Backlist

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We talk a lot about brand new books on the show, but we thought it might be time to talk about some of our favorites from the "backlist." They're not new, but they're not "classics" yet, either. In any case, we think you should read them. You can find all of these books for sale in our online store. Chris and Annie recommend: + The Secret History by Donna Tartt + Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford + Loving Frank by Nancy Horan + The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco + Gilead by Marilynne Robinson + The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber + The Explanation for Everything by Lauren Grodstein + Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal + Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer + A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan + The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker + The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce + The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman + How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe by Charles Yu + A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara + The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl + Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like a tour through market with Annie, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	So look, Twitter's a dumpster fire.
0:03.7	Oh, yeah.
0:04.7	However, I saw this thread because there's this like, somebody tweeted, what is the most...
0:14.0	On-brand thing from your childhood?
0:15.8	Yes.
0:16.8	Okay.
0:17.3	I did this.
0:18.0	Okay, so what is yours?
0:19.2	Okay, so I got in trouble in first grade for telling everyone where babies come from.
0:25.6	Okay.
0:26.6	But then in second grade, I got in trouble for telling my friends that I'm an exiled alien
0:30.6	snake prince who traveled the stars in a microscopic spaceship that landed on my mother's
0:36.6	ham sandwich and then
0:37.7	incubated inside of her after she ingested me. Oh my gosh, it's so detailed.
0:42.8	Yeah, and so like my most on-brand thing about me that was latent in my
0:49.1	in my childhood is that I will tell you all caps of the truth when you are not
0:54.0	asking for it or I will tell you all caps the truth when you are not asking for it,
0:54.8	or I will tell you absurd nonsense.
0:57.5	And look, you get to decide.
0:59.4	Neither of us knows which one's going to come out.
1:03.2	Who knows? It's whatever, whichever you is on a given day.
1:06.6	Yep, whichever one is in charge of my mouth that day.
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