Book Club: Velvet Was the Night, Ep 206

The Librarian Is In

The New York Public Library

Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.7 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Frank and Crystal discuss Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.
0:20.9	I am Frank.. I am Frank.
0:22.8	And I am Crystal.
0:24.8	And here we are.
0:28.3	Take it away.
0:30.1	Well, we read Velvet was the night and I actually really enjoyed it.
0:35.6	How did you feel about it?
0:37.4	Oh, wow. When I said take it away, you really took that to mean take it away, which is good. Oh, we were supposed to do banter before? I keep forgetting. Okay, what can we banter about? What does you come up with banter? We talked about our booster shots. We've talked about the holiday party. What else to be interested about? I know what I'm excited
0:55.6	about. And I probably mentioned this before. Did I mention this before? Because memory doesn't happen.
1:04.5	West Side Story. What about it? The movie. Oh, you watched it and enjoyed it?
1:11.8	It's not open.
1:12.7	Well, by the time this airs, it'll have opened.
1:16.5	The Steven Spielberg, West Side Story, remake of the famous 1961 West Side Story
1:21.5	ringing bells.
1:22.4	I know Sound of Music is where you begin and end with musicals. But I really think you should see this one
1:29.3	and see if it could add to your canon.
1:32.3	My canon of one, yes.
1:35.3	Your canon of one.
1:36.3	It's also Steven Sondheim's first big job.
1:39.3	He just died.
1:41.3	And he wrote the lyrics.
1:43.3	Leonard Bernstein wrote the music which is incredible
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