Joining us on Backlisted this week is novelist and memoirist Susie Boyt (My Judy Garland Life, Loved and Missed). The book Susie has chosen for us to discuss is The Dream Songs (1969) by John Berryman, the publication of which briefly made its author the most famous poet in America but also, unfortunately, hastened his decline and ruin. But the work shines o ... Show More
Aug 18
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington's charming and surreal novel The Hearing Trumpet (1976, probably) is the subject of this episode. Joining Una, Andy and Nicky is author and lecturer Dr Paul March-Russell, who offers insights into all aspects of Carrington's career. Leonora Carrington lived a l ... Show More
1h 17m
Apr 2024
Episode 473 || Annie Recommends: Audiobooks
This week on From the Front Porch, we have a new series: Annie Recommends! In this series, Annie curates a stack of books in a certain genre or theme for you – just as if you walked into our brick-and-mortar store, The Bookshelf. Sometimes, you just want a good book list. This mo ... Show More
42m 48s
Feb 2018
MAG 94 - Dead Woman Walking
#0172904Statement of Georgina Barker regarding the last words of possible corpse. Recorded direct from subject April 29th 2017.Content Warnings for this episode are at the end of the show notes.Thanks to this week's Patrons: Joshua Wilson, Rhiannon Knol, Cynthia J. Steward, Morga ... Show More
19m 8s
Oct 2023
Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson Style
This week, the panel begins by reviewing The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, Wes Anderson’s faithful adaptation of a 1977 Roald Dahl short story, that doubles as a sumptuous meta-commentary on the director’s exacting approach to his craft. Then, the three discuss The Super Models ... Show More
57m 55s
May 2017
MAG 67 - Burning Desire
#0071803 Statement of Jack Barnabas regarding a short-lived courtship with Agnes Montague in the Autumn of 2006. Original statement given March 18th 2007. Thanks to this week's Patrons: Martin Orchard, Cheryl Peterson, Kristen Bonner, Zack Clark, Marc Elliott, Anna O'Rourke, Erin ... Show More
20m 41s
Dec 2021
The Life of a Jazz Age Madam
In 2007, Debby Applegate won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Most Famous Man in America,” her biography of the 19th-century preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher. Applegate’s new book, “Madam,” is another biography, of a very different subject: Polly Adler, who ran a brothel and ... Show More
57m 54s
Nov 2019
Ep 209: Cracking the audiobook code
Today’s guest is Jamie Freeman, a reader who was led to audiobooks by her favorite true crime podcasts… and has since made serious space in her life to read with her earbuds in. Anne and Jamie chat about spine-tingly crime nonfiction, historical romance, their favorite audiobook ... Show More
48m 23s
May 2018
MAG 102 - Nesting Instinct
Case #0140406Statement of François Deschamps, regarding the family and presumed marriage of Benoît Maçon. Statement given June 4th 2014.Content Warnings for this episode are at the end of the show notes.Thanks to this week's Patrons: Tarryn McKay, Richard Nevell, Andrew Burton, C ... Show More
29m 15s
Nov 2019
Ep 208: The underappreciated art of literary forgery
Charlie Lovett joins Anne to discuss the enduring power of not only stories but the books themselves, how books connect people of all ages, and of all times, how we can preserve literature for future generations, the joy of a book as a physical object, the art of literary forgery ... Show More
50m 4s