Episode 530 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 24

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s a Literary Therapy session! Our literary Frasier Crane, Annie, is back to answer more of your reading questions and dilemmas. If you have a question you would like Annie to answer in a future episode, you can leave us a voicemail here.

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Melinda's voicemail:

Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
Games & Rituals by Katherine Heiny (unavailable to order)
Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly (unavailable to order)
I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet by Shauna Niequist
Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather Lende
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Here for It by R. Eric Thomas
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

Jessica's voicemail:

Tim Johnston
Stuart Turton
Andy Weir
Jeff Vandermeer
Peng Shepherd
Devolution by Max Brooks
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
The Fold by Peter Clines (unavailable to order)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe by Charles Yu
Emily St. John Mandel

Hailey's voicemail:

The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Brood by Jackie Polzin (unavailable to order)
Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin (unavailable to order)
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

Talia's voicemail:

Lady MacBeth by Ava Reid

Hide by Kiersten White

Lucy, Undying by Kiersten White

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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 listening to Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry.

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Our Executive Producers are...Beth, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, Jammie Treadwell, and Amanda Whigham.