Bunny, I Love You!
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Frank and Gwen do a deep dive into their summer reading pick, Mona Awad's new novel, Bunny—a dark satirical take on female friendship, loneliness, desire, and creative writing MFA programs. Alert: spoilers! tons of 'em!
Tell us what everybody's talking about in your world of books and libraries! Suggest Hot Topix(TM) by email or voice memo to podcasts[at]nypl.org or call 507-NYPL-LIB.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the librarians in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture high and low, and definitely what to read next. |
| 0:20.4 | My name is Frank. My name is Frank. |
| 0:21.7 | My name is Bunny. |
| 0:23.3 | Uh-oh. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm not even going to take that bite because that's coming, but I think you have some shameless self-promotion to offer the public. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm putting it all on you. |
| 0:40.3 | First, I wouldn't call this self-promotion. |
| 0:41.8 | I would call this podcast promotion. |
| 0:47.7 | But, yes, we thought we would start at the top of the show by saying thanks for the calls and emails. |
| 0:50.3 | Anybody else can call an email us, too. |
| 0:53.4 | We're really excited about making that a regular part of the show so you can get in touch with us by emailing |
| 0:57.0 | podcasts, plural at NYPL.org, or calling 507 NYPL live. Look, I have the phone number memorized now. |
| 1:05.3 | And you can leave us a voice message. You can send us a voice memo. We just are enjoying hearing your voices and you can |
| 1:12.6 | let us know if there's a particular hot topic you would like to discuss about books or libraries. |
| 1:18.5 | Also, please feel free to give us five stars on iTunes. Please feel free. Yeah, no, but it does. |
| 1:25.6 | The reviews make us super happy. |
| 1:28.4 | They, I think, |
| 1:29.1 | I do. |
| 1:29.9 | I love reading them. Justify our existence slightly to some of the people in our organization. |
| 1:34.0 | And it, having a higher rating does actually help people find the show. |
| 1:38.8 | Speaking of comments, I've actually noticed a couple of comments, which I'm thrilled about, actually. |
| 1:43.5 | It seems sort of exciting. |
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