Episode 364 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 14

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s time for another episode of Literary Therapy! Every few weeks, Annie listens to your literary hangups and bookish conundrums, and much like fictional Frasier Crane in the 90s, she tackles your issues on air. If you have your own readerly riddle you’d like her to solve in a future issue, leave a voicemail at the From the Front Porch website.

The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• South to America by Imani Perry

• Here for It by R. Eric Thomas

• Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron

• American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson

• Downeast by Gigi Georges

• Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield (back-ordered)

• Furious Hours by Casey Cep

• Going There by Katie Couric

• I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott

• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

• R. Eric Thomas on Substack

• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

• Sorrow & Bliss by Meg Mason

• Build Your House Around my Body by Violet Kupersmith

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 at @bookshelftville, 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. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, The 101st annual Rose Show and Festival, here in Thomasville, Georgia. If you want to come for the weekend and experience the flowers, fun, food, and shopping in beautiful Thomasville GA, plan your visit at thomasvillega.com.

This week Annie is reading The Last Suspicious Holdout by Ladee Hubbard.

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We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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