Welcome to episode 57 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business,

and life in the South. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in

beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm joined by fellow bookshelf staffer Chris Jensen.

Chris and I will be chatting about Oscar-nominated films and the

books that inspired them. Plus, we'll spend a few minutes talking about Harper Lee and what her

death means for the literary world. Before we get started, I just wanted to remind everyone, as I always

do, to follow us on Instagram and on Twitter. That's at Bookshelf Tevill. It's a great way to

stay up to date on things going on in the shop, even if you are a faraway listener or a faraway

fan of the bookshelf. And as I have mentioned previously on the podcast, we have a small

collection of curated goods that we sell on our bookshelf website.

So if you want to support us financially from afar, we would love that too.

You can find that collection at www.bushelfthththththomasville.com and just click shop to see what is available in our online store now.

All right, let's get started. Hey, Chris. Hello.

Welcome back to the podcast. God to be here. We are recording in my office today at the bookshelf,

which is a renovated closet. I use a term renovated pretty loosely. So if you hear background noise,

it's just the happenings of the bookshelf.

And possibly the refrigerator that I'm sitting in front of.

It's real tight here in our podcast studio.

Chris, before we talk about Oscar-nominated films,

I thought that we should spend just a few minutes talking about Harper Lee because she died today.

Yes, she did. At 89.

At the age of 89. And I was pretty sad this morning. I always feel a little weird because I know I don't know them, but you feel like you know them.

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