Episode 577 || From the Front Porch Live from Reader Retreat

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 43 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 2026 Reader Retreat! In this episode, Annie and Hunter engage in an abbreviated March Madness debate and play the Newlywed Game with help from Ashley. Enjoy! To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 577), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: The Liar's Club by Mary Karr vs. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara vs. The Goldfinch by Donna Tart Edinburgh by Alexander Chee vs. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff vs. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates vs. Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout The Road by Cormac McCarthy 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...Ashley Ferrell, Beth, Cammy Tidwell, Gene Queens, Jammie Treadwell, Joseph Shorter IV, Kimberly, Linda Lee Drozt, Nicole Marsee, Stephanie Dean, 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. Good evening, good evening everybody.
0:26.6	Thank you so much for coming to read for the spring 1.26.
0:30.6	You're so much about to have you.
0:32.6	Woo!
0:33.6	My name is Ackery.
0:36.6	I'm a creative strategist, former bookshelf staffer,
0:40.3	like a family member of Oneeney Jones.
0:42.3	And that gives me the privilege and honor of introducing our panel.
0:48.3	So, welcome to From the Front Porch live.
0:56.6	From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast hosted by the bookshel owner, Amy Jones.
1:00.5	It's been in production since 2014, nearly 500 episodes to date, with a variety of co-hosts and guests, including authors, local business owners, and bookshelf staffers.
1:10.3	The show averages 10,000 downloads an episode
1:12.7	with large pockets of listeners in Texas, California, Minnesota,
1:17.3	who are in this room.
1:19.0	Georgia and Florida.
1:20.3	Many of whom are in this room.
1:22.4	In 2024, from the Front Forge, reached a milestone
1:24.9	of 3 million downloads, links to listeners like you.
1:30.3	Tonight, Annie will be joined by me and her friend, our friend, and she will have a
1:36.3	character of Hunter McClendon.
1:39.3	Hunter McClendon, also known as show by show up on Instagram, is a writer and book pimp
1:44.2	who,
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