Episode 98 || The Pros & Cons of Life in the South (ft. Julia Reed)

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

"Grape nuts or sex? It's a no brainer." Food writer and editor Julia Reed popped by the podcast to chat about Southern food culture, holiday entertaining, and mixing politics with pleasure. (You'll hear lots of laughter this episode; Julia's one-liners will have you in stitches.) + You can find Julia's piece about Bill and Melinda Gates in the Wall Street Journal Magazine. + More about Julia Reed and her books can be found here. + Julia was in town for Thomasville's Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival + William Christenberry photography + Garden and Gun magazine + The Bitter Southerner Julia mentions: + William Trevor short stories + Walker Percy + Night School by Lee Child + The Jealous Kind by James Lee Burke Don't forget to leave us a voicemail for our 100th episode here!

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0:00.0	Oh, did you know Julia Roberts' middle name was Fiona?
0:02.8	I did.
0:03.6	What?
0:04.5	I don't know why I knew that, but I did.
0:06.9	Man.
0:08.9	Welcome to episode 98 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:15.4	My name is Chris Jensen, and I'm not in this episode.
0:18.3	And my name is Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:24.7	It's an interview.
0:26.5	Yeah, this is an interview episode.
0:28.5	Okay.
0:28.7	So a few weeks ago, Thomasville hosted its Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival.
0:34.1	Uh-huh.
0:34.5	And I had the opportunity to sit down with author and entertaining guru James
0:41.0	Farmer. And so we ran that episode already. But I also had the opportunity to sit down with Julia
0:46.6	Reed. So Julia is a contributing editor to Vogue and Newsweek, but she also, at least to Southerners, is most
0:56.1	famous for being an editor of Garden and Gun magazine.
0:59.7	So she contributes and writes a column for Garden and Gun.
1:02.9	And she, like James, is an entertaining kind of lifestyle expert.
1:08.2	Yeah.
1:09.0	And has written some cookbooks and some entertaining books, but then also
1:13.3	some really delightful humor kind of memoir books. So yeah, Julia and I got to sit down and chat
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