And Then There Was Chekhov
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Wherein we discuss reading (and acting!) Anton Chekhov, the influence of Agatha Christie, and the controversial merits of Go, Dog. Go!
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:07.8 | All right. |
| 0:09.1 | Hi. |
| 0:09.9 | Hi. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to the librarians and the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Frank. |
| 0:18.5 | And I'm Frank as well. |
| 0:20.2 | We're both Frank today. It's two Franks. We all are |
| 0:22.6 | Frank. So turn off now. Today we are just going to chat with you. And then next week we're going |
| 0:29.1 | to be talking to Sona Chirapotra, who's the head of content for We Need Diverse Books, |
| 0:33.4 | as well as an awesome YAA author who writes these really cool books about ballet and mean girls |
| 0:39.4 | and not mean girls and they're really good. I really like them. Yeah, I haven't read her books, |
| 0:45.0 | but I'm curious to hear about what she has to talk about her. Is it an organization? We need |
| 0:49.5 | diverse books. Yeah. Okay. Um, that she heads. Um, she's the head of content. I don't really know exactly what that means. So we will hear about it. Oh, that's next week. Yeah. So, yeah. And there's a little Jefferson Market story in there with her. Everybody loves a good Jefferson Market store. Well, a little one, but we'll talk about it next week. All right. Sounds good. So here we are. |
| 1:11.3 | So what's new, Frank? Have you read any good books lately? |
| 1:14.4 | God no. |
| 1:16.8 | God no. |
| 1:17.7 | Good books, plays. |
| 1:18.6 | All right, well, we're done. |
| 1:19.8 | Have a great week, everyone. |
| 1:20.8 | We'll see you next time. |
| 1:22.0 | I've actually been very preoccupied with reading, but for other purposes, which I don't know, I'm leading up to |
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