Episode 552 || From the Front Porch Live with Amy Poeppel

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 62 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 October Reader Retreat! In this episode, Annie, Hunter, and Ashley are joined by extra-special author guest Amy Poeppel, our Reader Retreat featured author, to do a snake draft of literary and pop culture homes. Enjoy! To purchase Amy’s books, stop by the store or visit our website: Far and Away The Sweet Spot Small Admissions Thank you to this week’s sponsor, Discover Thomasville. Gracefully tucked within the storied Red Hills of South Georgia, Thomasville curates a distinguished Downtown experience that meanders along several blocks of our iconic red brick streets. Here, bespoke boutiques, master craftsmen, coveted antique art purveyors, and celebrated culinary artisans converge in harmony with the cultural richness of the Pebble Hill Plantation art tour and the tranquil allure of Birdsong Nature Center. Here, you Discover the Soul of the South. Here, you Discover Thomasville. Learn more by visiting thomasvillega.com/news. 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 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.

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.
0:28.8	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:30.3	Today, we're bringing you a live episode of From the Front Porch.
0:34.1	We recorded this episode at our recent fall reader retreat. Our special guests
0:38.9	were Hunter MacLendon, Ashley Sherlock, and author Amy Popol. I have loved Amy's books for quite
0:45.9	some time, so it was a joy to have her at Reader Retreat. If you've never read her books,
0:50.5	my favorite might be musical chairs, although certainly that could be affected by the
0:55.6	fact that I read it during peak pandemic. It was an immense comfort to me during a very stressful
1:00.5	time. But Amy's books have been a light and, yeah, a comfort. And it was a wonderful treat to have
1:09.0	her at read a retreat and to interview her and then to have her on the podcast.
1:13.9	When it came time to decide how we wanted to do the format of our live show, we stuck with the
1:20.0	fantasy draft format that we've used in previous episodes.
1:23.6	And this time we talked about the feeling of home.
1:26.8	And specifically, homes in pop culture books
1:30.1	literature movies tv etc and we had a blast with this one i think it was also really meaningful
1:37.5	to have amy who has homes in a couple of different states different countries even hunter who's
1:43.7	recently moved to philly and ashley who's recently moved to Philly,
1:45.2	and Ashley, who's recently moved to North Carolina, and then meets someone who stays quite
1:52.5	notoriously. And so it was really fun to talk through the idea of home and then what
1:57.9	homes in pop culture we find ourselves drawn towards. So I hope you enjoy
2:01.9	this live podcast recording. I know the audio might be a little perhaps not what we're accustomed
2:07.1	to in terms of quality, but I hope the content and subject matter helps you stick around. Thanks
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