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From the Front Porch

Episode 220 || Indie Bookstore Day 2019

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day, so Annie and Chris are here to talk about WHY independent bookstores matter and to bring you a list of some of their favorites up and down the east coast--and beyond! + The Bookshelf in Thomasville, GA + Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, FL + Sundog Books in Seaside, FL + Page and Palette in Fairhope, AL + Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA + Book Culture in New York, NY + Book People in Austin, TX + E. Shaver, Bookseller in Savannah, GA + Square Books in Oxford, MS + Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI + Oxford Exchange in Tampa, FL + Golden Hare Books in Edinburgh, UK + Forum Books in Corbridge, UK + Wheatberry Books in Chillicothe, OH + Twenty Stories in Los Angeles, CA + The Bookshop (formerly Her Bookshop) in Nashville, TN + Greedy Reads in Baltimore, MD + Fabled Bookshop in Waco, TX + Books are Magic in New York, NY + Loyalty Bookstore in Washington, DC 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

Can we talk about how I didn't realize Taylor Swift fans are like the Illuminati?

0:09.0

Oh, yes, they are.

0:10.6

I know all about this.

0:11.8

I did not realize, like I knew, because I own all of her CDs.

0:17.4

And so I knew early in her career, early CDs like had messages like in the CD

0:24.0

what I don't even know what you call this seven more like yeah and the lyrics like some of the

0:29.2

lyrics would be bold so if you like spelled out the letters you could figure out her message to

0:33.4

the fans I knew that I didn't do it right but I But I knew that you could. Right. And I thought,

0:39.8

oh, that's clever. Yeah. But I did not know. She loves leaving secret messages. Man, she really does.

0:46.8

Yeah. She loves sending people on a scavenger hunt that sometimes they take in the wrong direction.

0:52.7

Yeah. Where she's misleading them.

0:54.8

Like, and harmlessly.

0:56.2

Like, it's all fun.

0:57.7

And they just start speculating about wild things.

1:00.5

And I'm keyed into this because of Kelsey, who is a big Taylor Swift fan, like a super fan.

1:06.1

What do you call?

1:06.9

Are they Swifties?

1:08.0

Yes.

1:09.0

Swifties is the correct term.

1:10.4

But Stan is just the internet

1:12.0

parlance. I think it means stalker fan. Thank you. I've wondered for a real long time. And I think

1:18.3

it actually comes. So they spill the tea. That's the other internet phrase I just learned. Well,

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