BiblioSmiles
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A library podcast about a book about libraries? Sign us up! Frank goes meta this week with an in-depth review of Susan Orlean's new page-turner, and and Gwen sees an author of children's classics in a new light.
Frank & Gwen's Recommendations
The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and several other books by Susan Orlean
Check out the Library Talks podcast (after Sunday, Nov. 11) to hear an interview with Orlean!
The works of Canadian children's author Robert Munsch:
And "The Story Behind 'Love You Forever' Is Probably Not What You Thought"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Gwen. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Frank. |
| 0:23.3 | And today is election day. |
| 0:28.9 | Yes. We're recording this in the morning before anybody really knows anything that's going on. So this is going to be your Zen space. It's Tuesday. You won't hear this until Thursday. So this is going to be |
| 0:35.3 | a little politics-free zone for the next couple of hours. |
| 0:39.2 | And actually there's voting downstairs in the library we're in on 20th Street, the Andra |
| 0:44.0 | High School Library. They are actually, they're a voting center. So as we came in, there was |
| 0:50.5 | voter, vote here, vote a key. I mean, there were signs everywhere. It was sort of cool. Yeah. I was surprised to see that this morning. I didn't know this was a polling. I know. I didn't either. Yeah. Not knowing where your polling place is. Not a good. Right. It's not my polling place. Right. So it's okay. So we're good. Plenty of people are in there. I know where mine is. It's in a school. Plenty of people seem to know that this was their polling location, so I think it's all. |
| 1:12.8 | That's the important thing. So we're in a Zen space. Is that what you said? Yes. Okay. This is a Zen space. How are you doing? I have multiple emotions. You seem sad this morning. Well, you're, you're low key as well. it's raining out, which is fine, actually, but I don't know, it adds to it. |
| 1:11.4 | Like, you know when it rains... You're low-key as well. It's raining out, which is fine, actually. |
| 1:28.2 | But I don't know, it adds to it. |
| 1:30.0 | Like, you know when it rains really hard? |
| 1:32.2 | You sometimes, even if you have windows and curtains close, you sleep harder. |
| 1:36.8 | It was one of those mornings where I was like, huh? |
| 1:38.8 | Because it doesn't, you don't know what time it is because the sun isn't fully out. |
| 1:42.1 | But I also read a book that had made me feel multiple |
| 1:45.4 | things at different junctures in the book, one of which was a melancholy in a weird way that I |
| 1:51.9 | don't really know how to talk about, and I'm not sure how to talk about it, but maybe, as you |
| 1:57.6 | are known to do, can help me with that because you're very helpful. |
| 2:02.0 | So do you want, what did you read? I know you have multiple things, multiple books that are |
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