Episode 377 || Backlist Book Club: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

It’s time for another installment of Backlist Book Club! This week on From the Front Porch, Annie and Hunter Mclendon (@shelfbyshelf) are talking about Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard.

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

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• A Circle of Quiet by Margaret L'Engle

• The Creation by E.O. Wilson (not available through us, check your local library)

• Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray

• Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

• Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl

• Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl

• I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by Susan Cerulean

• Less by Andrew Sean Greer

• A Portrait of The Scientist as a Young Woman by Lindy Elkins-Tanton

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. 

This week Annie is reading Flying Solo by Linda Holmes. Hunter is reading Oh, William! by Elizabeth Strout.

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