Episode 364 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 14

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s time for another episode of Literary Therapy! Every few weeks, Annie listens to your literary hangups and bookish conundrums, and much like fictional Frasier Crane in the 90s, she tackles your issues on air. If you have your own readerly riddle you’d like her to solve in a future issue, leave a voicemail at the From the Front Porch website. The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: South to America by Imani Perry Here for It by R. Eric Thomas Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson Downeast by Gigi Georges Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield (back-ordered) Furious Hours by Casey Cep Going There by Katie Couric I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann R. Eric Thomas on Substack The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller Sorrow & Bliss by Meg Mason Build Your House Around my Body by Violet Kupersmith From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, The 101st annual Rose Show and Festival, here in Thomasville, Georgia. If you want to come for the weekend and experience the flowers, fun, food, and shopping in beautiful Thomasville GA, plan your visit at thomasvillega.com. This week Annie is reading The Last Suspicious Holdout by Ladee Hubbard. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Libro.FM: Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app. Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link: https://tidd.ly/3C2zVbb Flodesk: Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?’ Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it’s easy to use. We’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to: flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:08.0	The beauty of Paris is reassuring, its constancy. I'm grateful for places that have been
0:15.0	changed, because I have. A year and a half later, Notre-Dame will burn.
0:38.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:48.0	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week, it's time for another episode of Literary Therapy,
0:53.0	our very first of the new year. Before we get started, I wanted to talk about the new
0:58.0	From the Front porch Book Club we're hosting on Patreon, exclusively on Patreon.
1:02.0	We've launched a new $20 a month tier of support, which includes access to our first ever Patreon Book Club.
1:09.0	The group will begin with me hosting quarterly conversations about one of my shelf subscription selections.
1:14.0	Then later this year, retail floor manager Olivia will join in the fund by hosting her own virtual chats.
1:21.0	We're going to kind of alternate as we head into the latter part of the year.
1:25.0	This new Patreon tier launched this month, and I've already announced our first Book Club selection,
1:30.0	The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka.
1:33.0	Our first Book Club meeting is set for Thursday, April 7th, and you have until April 1st to join Patreon
1:39.0	and be automatically registered for our group.
1:42.0	Just go to patreon.com, forward slash from the Front porch, and sign up to be a Book Club companion for $20 a month.
1:50.0	You'll find everything you need, all the information you need about this new Book Club on Patreon at patreon.com, forward slash from the Front porch.
1:58.0	If you are new to the show every few weeks, I dive into the metaphorical mailbag and peruse your literary hangups and bookish conundrums,
2:06.0	and much like fictional phrasier crane in the 90s, I tackle your issues on air.
2:11.0	If you have your own readerly riddle, you'd like me to solve in a future episode, leave me a voice mail at the From the Front porch website.
2:18.0	That's from the Front porch podcast.com, forward slash contact.
2:23.0	You can scroll to the middle of the page, and you will see a place to leave me a voice mail, no need for a microphone.
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