Book Club: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 161

The Librarian Is In

The New York Public Library

Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.7 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Hey all, happy April! Thanks for joining us again for another episode of The Librarian Is In! This week Frank and Rhonda are discussing A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor from the NYPL's 125 Books We Love List to read and discuss. We hope you had the chance to read along, too.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to the library and is in the New York Public Library's
0:17.9	podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.
0:21.4	I am Frank.
0:22.8	And I'm Rhonda.
0:24.4	And here we are, ready to talk about Flannery O'Connor's collection of short stories.
0:31.8	A Good Man is Hard to Find in other stories.
0:35.4	It's one of the books that's on the New York Public Library's 125
0:40.3	books we love list, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the New York Public Library.
0:46.3	And hopefully all you guys listening have read it or some of the stories in it,
0:53.3	because we are going to go to town on it.
0:55.6	We're not holding anything back, right?
0:58.6	No spoilers.
1:00.3	No, we are doing spoilers.
1:02.5	Wait.
1:02.8	I mean, yes, I'm sorry.
1:03.8	I'm saying we are spoiling.
1:05.3	Right.
1:06.1	That is about 70 years old.
1:10.8	Right. I mean, but still it's new for some people I mean I I did read
1:15.9	a good man is hard to find the title story which is probably one of her most famous and
1:23.5	it it sort of never left me so when I I reread it, it was interesting, to say the least.
1:31.8	And reading her other stories was also an interesting experience.
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