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The Librarian Is In

Bumming' In The 'Burbs

The Librarian Is In

The New York Public Library

Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.7595 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week Gwen and Frank tackle wonderlands, "What Girls are Made Of," mid-life crisises, and no easy ways out...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Welcome to The Librarian is in. Go Gwyn.

0:14.0

The New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Heidi Kloon.

0:19.0

And I'm Nina Garcia. What are we going to say about this week?

0:22.9

I have no idea.

0:23.5

Well, we have fun stuff coming ahead.

0:25.2

Right.

0:26.3

Next week.

0:27.5

No, this week.

0:28.2

This week we have fun.

0:29.1

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

0:30.4

Yeah, talk about the fun stuff.

0:32.0

Gwen, because Gwen, you know, I ride on Gwen's coattails,

0:35.8

Gwen's celebrity and me by extension is now reached a new height as we've been asked to this Friday judge a gigantic Halloween masquerade contest fun party at the 42nd Street library with the big lions in front of them in Astor Hall.

0:57.3

And we will be judging this giant costume extravaganza, Halloween costume extravaganza with

1:03.3

guess.

1:05.5

Guess out there.

1:06.7

We'll wait.

1:07.2

We'll wait.

1:08.0

One, two.

1:08.6

Who do you think when you think fashion?

1:10.1

Tim Gunn. Tim Gunn, you guys. I know. I can't believe this. It's sort of stunning. It is really stunning. I think he's bringing the fashion expertise and we're bringing the literary, literary expertise because it's a literary themed costume contest. And I can't wait. I'm so excited.

1:27.7

I have seen a lot of Project Runway in my time. Me too. Me too. Yeah. For sure. And I also saw some of Tim Gunn's other shows. Like, when he had that show where he went into people's homes and into their closet. He did? I need to do some research on this. And that was really cool. and I don't think it's on anymore, but Project Runway still is.

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