The Friendly City Books Podcast

Since 2020, Friendly City Books has served as an independent bookstore and gathering space for book lovers in our hometown of Columbus, Mississippi. Here at Friendly City Books we read every genre, from romance to horror and everything in between, and so do our customers. We can’t stop professing our undying love of books to anyone who will listen. And now, through our podcasts, we hope to connect our local community with readers and authors around the world. Our team of enthusiastic book sellers and customers will be hosting book discussions, author interviews, and offering up some really awesome recommendations. We can’t wait to share our favorite books with you. Thank you for supporting Friendly City Books by listening to our podcast. Shop with us in store and online through bookshop.org, libro.fm, and friendlycitybooks.com/shop. Happy reading!

The Friendly City Books Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Friendly City Books, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Friendly City Books hosts The Friendly City Books Podcast, a arts show with 100 episodes published.

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  Episode #98

  Author Interview - Kate Fagan

  Jan 7, 202549 minS0

  <p>Devan talks with Kate Fagan about her debut fiction novel The Three Lives of Cate Kay!</p><p>-</p><p>Kate Fagan is an Emmy-award winning journalist and the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of WHAT MADE MADDY RUN, which was a semi-finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting. Her first book was the coming-of-age memoir THE REAPPEARING ACT, and her third book, ALL THE COLORS CAME OUT, was released in May 2021 from Little, Brown. In March of 2023, her fourth book — HOOP MUSES: an insider’s guide to pop culture and the (women’s) game — a collab...

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  Episode #97

  Author Interview - Beth Kander

  Dec 30, 202445 minS0

  <p>Beth Kander joins Emily in the FCB studio to celebrate her debut novel, I Made It Out of Clay, a darkly funny Jewish holiday romance.</p><p>-</p><p>Beth Kander is a USA Today best-selling writer with tangled roots in the Midwest and Deep South. She is the author of the novel I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY and several books for younger readers. The granddaughter of immigrants, her work often explores how worlds old and new intertwine—or collide. Described as a “genre-defying author and playwright” (Oxford American), her work has been called “riveting” and “habit-forming.”<br />Beth earn...

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  Episode #96

  Author Interview - Boyce Upholt

  Nov 25, 202442 minS0

  <p>Patrick Dean talks with Boyce Upholt, author of The Great River: The making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, his debut book.</p><p>-</p><p>Boyce Upholt is a journalist and essayist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic, National Geographic, the Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. He is the winner of a James Beard Award for investigative journalism, and he lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.</p><p>-</p><p>About The Great River: The making and Unmaking of the Mississippi bookshop.org:</p><p>The Mississippi River lies at the heart of...

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  Episode #95

  Author Interview - Minrose Gwin

  Nov 18, 20241h 7mS0

  <p>Emily talks with Minrose Gwin, author of Beautiful Dreamers, her fourth novel and ninth book.</p><p>-</p><p>A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, Minrose has been a writer all of her working life, starting out as a newspaper and wire service reporter and working in Mobile, Atlanta, Nashville, and Knoxville. She has taught as a professor at universities around the country, most recently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has spent many summers leading creative writing workshops at the University of New Mexico Writers' Conference in Taos and Santa Fe. She lives in...

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  Episode #94

  Author Interview - Brom

  Sep 16, 202435 minS0

  <p>American gothic author and artist Brom joins Rachel in the FCB Studio to discuss his newest book, Evil in Me - available now!</p><p>-</p><p>Over the past few decades, acclaimed dark fantasy artist Brom has lent his distinctive vision to all facets of the creative industries, from novels and games to comics and film. He is the nationally bestselling author of Slewfoot, The Child Thief, Krampus, The Lost Gods and the award-winning illustrated horror novels The Plucker and The Devil's Rose. Brom is currently kept in a dank cellar just outside of Savannah.</p><p>...

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