Anger Is a Gift
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Aristotle famously (er, probably) said that anger is a gift, and Gwen's been given one this year: Rebecca Traister's book about the power of women's rage, "Good and Mad." Plus, Frank finds more presents in The New Yorker archives and NYPL announces its year-end Best Books lists.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Frank. And I'm Gwen. And today we're here to talk about books. Culture and what to read next. Yeah. I think one day I'll actually get that down. But you do it so well. There's no reason why I should actually do the lead in. This is episode 120 and I still have it written on this piece of paper. I didn't have to look at it today, but I still have to, like, look at the intro occasionally |
| 0:38.6 | and remember what it says. Well, you have it there just as a, as a crutch. Yeah. It says, |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Gwen, Frank, comma, et cetera. Hi, I'm Gwen, and I'm et cetera. I'm et cetera. I am et cetera. |
| 0:52.6 | And actually, speaking of et cetera, next week, you are going to be listening to our live show, |
| 0:57.9 | which we're going to release in this feed like a normal episode. |
| 1:01.4 | So you'll be able to feel as though you're right there in the room. |
| 1:04.7 | We're going to record in front of a live audience. |
| 1:07.6 | So all the uproarious laughter, the screaming, the tears, the pleading. |
| 1:14.4 | Hurling themselves at the stage. The pleading. |
| 1:16.7 | The pleading. Please stop talking. For us to shut up. Please. You'll hear live. All the things |
| 1:24.1 | who are listening now wanted to say you will hear. |
| 1:28.3 | And we'll be, should we say, we'll be interviewing or talking with Eric Kleinenberg, who wrote |
| 1:34.5 | a book about libraries called Palaces for the People. |
| 1:37.5 | Which I just finished. |
| 1:38.5 | It's really interesting. |
| 1:39.5 | Me too. |
| 1:40.5 | It is really interesting. |
| 1:41.5 | A lot of interesting things to say about libraries. And we'll get to it. You got to listen. |
| 1:47.9 | Yeah. You got to listen. It's going to be good. It's going to be good stuff. We hope. Yeah, exactly. Do you know what else happened this week actually that I wanted to talk about? Or really, it was last week. It was right before Thanksgiving, which feels like a year ago, but wasn't actually that long ago, was we released our best books lists. |
| 2:03.6 | You did. |
| 2:04.1 | This year, for the first year, we've been doing best books for kids and best books for teens for a long time. |
| 2:09.9 | Kids is a really long time that at the New York Public Library has been around for like over 100 years. |
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