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From the Front Porch

Episode 386 || Backlist Book Club: LESS

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Hunter McClendon of @shelfbyshelf joins Annie for the Backlist Book Club. Listen in as the two of them discuss the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Less on the Backlist Book Club. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our new website: The books discussed this week include: Less by Andrew Sean Greer Beloved by Toni Morrison Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer World Travel by Anthony Bourdain Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrick Backman Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor (this is permanently backordered ) The Guncle by Steven Rowley Link to the Fall Literary Lunch ticket 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.  This week Annie is listening to Dinosaurs by Lydia Millett. Hunter is reading Paul by Daisy Lafarge. 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. Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Angie Erickson, Cammy Tidwell, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie Johnson, and Kate Johnston Tucker. 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

What have Freddie meant, the bravest person I know?

0:27.0

For less, it is a mystery, name a day, name an hour in which Arthur Less was not afraid.

0:34.0

Of ordering a cocktail, taking a taxi, teaching a class, writing a book, afraid of these and almost everything else in the world.

0:43.0

Strange though, because he is afraid of everything, nothing is harder than anything else.

0:49.0

Taking a trip around the world is no more terrifying than buying a stick of gum, the daily dose of courage.

0:57.0

Andrew Sean Greer.

0:59.0

Less.

1:01.0

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.

1:06.0

And this week, it's time for Backlist Book Club.

1:09.0

In today's episode, Hunter McClendon and I are discussing the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Less, by Andrew Sean Greer.

1:16.0

Before we get started, I wanted to remind listeners of the bookshelf's upcoming fall literary lunch.

1:21.0

Every quarter, I host these bookish lunches on Zoom to introduce readers to my favorite titles of the upcoming season.

1:27.0

With fall nearly upon us, can you taste it in the air?

1:31.0

We certainly cannot, but a girl can dream.

1:33.0

We've got our fall literary lunch on the books for Thursday, September 1st at noon Eastern.

1:38.0

Your ticket to the event includes access to the Zoom, which you can watch live or later, it will be recorded.

1:43.0

A discount code for fall pre-orders and a handy PDF guide to the new books of the season.

1:49.0

To snag a ticket to this virtual event, head to the bookshelf's website, that's bookshelfthomasville.com, then click events and tickets.

1:58.0

There's also a link in the show notes of today's episode.

2:01.0

Now, back to the show.

2:03.0

Hi, Hunter.

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