Episode 86 || We'll Be There for You: TV Sitcoms + Bookselling

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Author Ann Patchett recently compared bookselling to being on a sitcom. Annie and Chris investigate that claim, comparing their fellow booksellers to Friends characters and examining why we identify with fictional characters of all kinds. + Read Ann Patchett's original interview, here. + Find CJ Hauser's essay all about characters who are "just like us" here.

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0:00.0	My mom bought me candles.
0:04.2	You have a lot of candles in here.
0:05.7	Is that why?
0:06.2	I have two.
0:06.8	There's one here and one in your bathroom. Okay, so I have three total. You're a guide. That's surprising to me. I like smells. It smells good in here. It's called wine cellar. It's her bath and body works. My mom bought it for me. She also bought me one called like Bergamot Waters, which I really like too, but it's...
0:05.0	This one has like Bergamot Waters, which I really like too.
0:22.0	But this one has like berries in it that I really enjoy.
0:26.2	There's kind of a cranberry note in there, I guess.
0:30.7	Bergamette Waters is a lot more subtle.
0:32.8	Okay.
0:33.8	I thought it smelled good.
0:34.5	Maybe also probably more masculine, but I don't care.
0:40.3	I thought it smelled nice when I walked in. So good job, Mom.
0:41.3	Good work.
0:42.3	Welcome to episode 86 of From the Front Forch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:51.3	I'm Chris Jensen, and I spend a lot of time thinking about which people
0:56.2	resemble other people. And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an infinite bookstore
1:01.4	in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. And the thing that I just said is weird. However,
1:06.4	it's also the theme of our episode today. It's what we're talking about today. I'm actually really excited about this.
1:12.2	I think it'll be fun.
1:13.6	So why are we talking about this?
1:15.3	So Anne Patchett, owner of Parnassas' books, best-selling author,
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