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From the Front Porch

Episode 188 || Does What the Author Thinks Actually Matter?

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When authors endlessly tweet about what was actually happening in the background of a given book, or, worse, release a sequel or companion text, does that thrill you or make you cringe? This week, Annie and Chris field a listener question about what counts as "canon" in the books we love. Also, more #blandsome files. 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 brief interviews with not-so-hideous booksellers, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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so I posted about blandly handsome men a few weeks ago

0:05.1

I'm not going to go into details on the origins of that

0:08.9

I like the disclaimers though that you're giving now

0:11.2

like I know I get more responses from those blandly handsome men posts than I do

0:17.1

from anything else I put on the internet I told Jordan it Jordan, it will be both humiliating and I guess funny.

0:25.0

And when you have a hologram headstone.

0:27.0

That is like what I'm known for is blandly handsome men.

0:30.6

Like here I am one day wanting to write, you know, a really great book.

0:34.0

And instead, like, I put out a coffee table book of blandly handsome men with like

0:37.5

corresponding essays it's fine um but you could oh think about this team up with Annie

0:43.7

Libovitz yeah and get some really great pictures yeah Annie and Annie I think I just realized

0:50.6

I'm gonna keep this to myself I think I have an idea. Okay. Copyright. You heard it

0:55.4

here first. TM, TM, TM. TM. T.M. This idea. So I posed about plainly handsome men. One of the men I put on

1:01.6

there was Ted Danson. I put him on there as Sam Malone. Right. To which I did get some very

1:08.8

horrifying responses of who is this. What? Which, guys. That's a mistake. I don't want to be one of those people who's judgy, like, who's like, you've never heard of cheers, but like, really. There are a few cultural landmarks where I think it's okay to have that opinion. Like, I don't want to shame people. But cheers is one of those. Cheers? Is like a...

1:28.3

You get Cheers?

1:29.3

Yeah.

1:30.3

Seinfeld.

1:31.3

Like there are things that like even if you have not really seen it, you definitely

1:34.3

know what it is.

1:35.3

That's right.

1:36.3

Even until last year I've never seen Seinfeld.

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