Episode 88 || Favorite Fall Titles

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Curious what the life of a book sales rep might look like? Annie and Chris interview Virginia Price, a sales rep for Penguin Random House. Virginia recommends her favorite upcoming fall book releases (and gives readers a preview of some spring titles to come). Plus, the three book lovers share their favorite podcasts and why movie book covers are so, so bad. FICTION: + The Mothers + Ninth City Burning + Reputations + Swing Time + Ink and Bone + The Girl on the Train NONFICTION: + The Princess Diarist + The Book of Joy + The Glass Universe + Dogs and Their People Other titles mentioned: + War and Peace + Anna Karenina + Lord of the Rings + Exit West + MacArthur's Spies Podcasts mentioned: + 410wned Gaming Podcast + This American Life + RadioLab + Welcome to Night Vale + The Bright Sessions + Grammar Girl For more book recommendations, you can reach Virginia at vprice {at} penguinrandomhouse {dot} com.

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0:00.0	So I felt actually old for the first time this week.
0:05.8	Aw.
0:06.3	And it was when Apple released iOS 10.
0:11.0	Uh-huh.
0:12.0	And I accidentally sent a bunch of nonsense messages to several of my friends because I couldn't figure out the new text messaging interface.
0:23.0	Oh, does it look different?
0:25.4	A little bit. Here, I'll show you.
0:28.4	I'm going to feel a little bit.
0:29.2	Also, my phone is locked with the password for the first time ever.
0:33.2	Aw, I did that recently.
0:34.7	So here's a group message with my dad and two of my aunts, or my dad sent a picture of his
0:41.2	cat.
0:42.3	There are all these new options at the bottom.
0:44.6	Oh, no.
0:45.4	This one allows you to search for gifts.
0:47.9	Okay.
0:48.4	Which is useful, except that it doesn't have a good inventory yet.
0:52.1	Right, so where's the pop key or whatever?
0:54.9	So this is the scary thing.
0:57.4	You can send all these things.
0:58.6	I don't want to touch it because it sends them.
1:01.2	So you could send a thing of yourself?
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