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From the Front Porch

Episode 211 || Backlist Book Club, Vol. 1

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined once again by frequent contributors Hunter McLendon and Emily McKenna for the first installment in our new series, Backlist Book Club. Up first on the docket: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. You can purchase any of the books mentioned on today's episode at The Bookshelf. Hunter's list of recommended list of resources is as follows: + The Stacks+ read.rewind + reads_by_rodkelly + absorbedinpages You can follow Hunter and Emily on Instagram. 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 Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

So Emily went to London.

0:03.3

Yes, I'm very jet lagged at this moment.

0:06.3

Who'd you see?

0:07.2

Tell us who you texted us that you saw.

0:09.6

As I was walking out of Hamilton, and I saw William Morrison.

0:14.6

And this one of the texts me and Hunter received is William Morrison.

0:19.6

And so I don't know about you, Hunter,

0:21.4

but I personally went into a panic

0:24.4

that I wasn't cool enough to know who William Morrison was.

0:27.4

So I immediately went on a Google search,

0:29.8

and all I could find was like, who even was it?

0:32.7

It was like...

0:33.1

An inventor.

0:33.8

Yes, an inventor.

0:35.0

And I thought, he's dead.

0:37.1

He's long dead.

0:39.2

And then, so I responded trying to make a joke.

0:43.8

Yeah, you were like, the inventor from the 1800s, and I said, that's good to hear.

0:47.3

I was wondering when he'd come out from hiding.

0:48.9

Okay, but when you responded, I thought, Hunter knows who she's talking about, and I still don't.

0:53.9

And then, like, across the ocean in London, I sent the text, was walking down the stairs to the subway, and I was like, that didn't sound like the right name. And I googled it, and I was like, oh, no, sent a text, and it was like, cannot deliver because you're underground. And so I come up to all these jokes about inventors.

1:12.2

I was like, sorry guys, I meant Matthew Morrison. Who is like... From Glee. Which I will say, wait. Wait, can I just say he's also from Broadway? Yes. Yes. But like, I'm sorry, but he took that pop route and it just like was not successful. own thought's his own fault he took the glee job which was

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