Episode 521 || From the Front Porch Live from Reader Retreat

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, we have a special treat: a recording of our live show from The Bookshelf’s March Reader Retreat! In this episode, Annie, Hunter, and Ashley are joined by extra-special author guest Jeff Zentner, our Reader Retreat featured author, to do a snake draft of all things Southern: from literature to manners to food. Enjoy! To purchase Jeff Zentner’s debut adult fiction book, stop by the store or visit our website: Colton Gentry’s Third Act by Jeff Zentner 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, Tiktok, and Facebook, 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. 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...Beth, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, Jammie Treadwell, and Amanda Whigham.

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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	Choose Choose beauty and sorrow over numbness and oblivion. Choose it again and again. Choose it as long as you have any choice.
0:35.8	Jeff Sintner, Colton Gentry's third act.
0:39.8	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:44.8	Thomasville, Georgia.
0:46.4	And today, we are bringing you our live podcast episode, recorded a couple of weeks ago
0:52.0	during our March reader retreat.
0:55.9	I'm joined by my frequent co-hosts and from the front porch contributors Ashley Sherlock and Hunter McClendon, and our special
1:01.5	guest for the retreat weekend was Jeff Zentner, author of Colton Gentry's third act.
1:07.7	As with several of our previous live episodes, we opted for a fantasy draft style show,
1:13.6	this time debating our favorite parts about life in the South. But make sure you stay tuned
1:19.2	till the end for Ashley's rousing game of country song or book title. It's harder than you
1:25.9	think. And if you are here waiting for our annual March Madness episode,
1:31.4	never fear.
1:32.6	Jordan and I are recording this week,
1:34.5	so that episode will be dropping into your feed next Thursday.
1:41.7	Enter from the front porch.
1:57.0	Woo! Enter from the front porch. Welcome everybody. We're so glad y'all were here.
2:00.0	Thank you for joining us.
2:01.6	Thank you for being listeners of From the Front Porch.
2:04.6	Tonight, we always kind of talk about how we want to do this show because on from the front porch, it's typically me and maybe one other person.
2:14.6	And so when we become a group of four or five, you start to wonder,
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