From the Front Porch

Episode 595 || Literary Therapy Vol. 28

August 20, 2026·45 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

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. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 595) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app. Lizzy: The House of Mirth or The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe The Group by Mary McCarthy Kate: Literary westerns The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzales James Outlawed by Anna North God’s Country by Percival Everett News of the World by Paulette Jiles The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain The Plague of Doves and The Round House by Louise Erdrich Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Prioux Plainsong by Kent Haruf The Son by Philipp Meyer Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt The Dying Grass by William T. Vollman Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by Dav

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