Episode 460 || Into the Backlist, Vol. 1

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, we have a new episode series: Into the Backlist! Today, Annie changes her focus from new releases to dive into the backlist: the books that came out years ago, the books that didn’t get enough attention, the books you may stumble upon while browsing in an indie bookstore like The Bookshelf. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website (type “Episode 460” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode) or or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffFire Sermon by Jamie Quatro (unavailable to order)Dear Regina by Flannery O'ConnorGilead by Marilynne RobinsonBeautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 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 reading One in a Millennial by Kate Kennedy. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. 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...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.

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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. Your face says so much in so little time. You let everything you're thinking bloom upon
0:29.7	your face and I can't think of anything else I'd rather watch than you pass through five moods in five
0:36.1	minutes. What glorious weather.
0:38.8	Carleen Bauer, Francis and Bernard.
0:44.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf
0:46.2	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:49.9	And this week we're launching a monthly podcast series we're calling into the backlist.
0:55.9	This month officially begins our 2024 Conquer a Classic program where Hunter McClendon and I are
1:01.9	reading the American Classic Lonesome Dove
1:04.7	alongside hundreds of other readers. Our monthly bonus podcast episodes recapping the book
1:10.0	published to Patreon on the last Friday of the month, which means you still have plenty of time to join us.
1:16.0	You can grab your copy of the book from the link in our show notes or by shopping at bookshelf Thomasville.com.
1:23.0	Patreon supporters just need to join at the $5 level
1:26.0	to hear our monthly conversations
1:28.0	and you'll receive a free copy of the reading guide too.
1:32.0	Visit Patreon.com slash from the front porch and
1:35.5	support us at the five dollar level our first episode drops on January 25th
1:41.5	now back to the show. So because from the front porch is a podcast
1:46.2	very much wrapped up in the comings and goings of the books shelf, many or most of
1:51.4	the books we feature are new or many times they're not even yet released books which I know drives you all mad.
1:57.5	And so backlist titles can get lost or overlooked.
2:01.5	If this term is not super familiar to you, backlist titles just
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