Closer to Fine: Ep. 12
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Along with Susen Shi from Mid-Manhattan Library, Frank and Gwen reveal their librarianship origin stories on this week's episode. Plus: Self-help books, plays in print, and the legacy of the Indigo Girls.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Librarian is in. |
| 0:13.1 | The New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Frank, and I'm sitting next to Gwen, and later we'll be joined by Susan Shee. |
| 0:26.5 | She's a librarian. She'll tell us all about herself. |
| 0:31.1 | Hey, Gwen. |
| 0:32.9 | I can't talk now. |
| 0:35.3 | Then my job is done. |
| 0:38.3 | When you said you had dreamed of another accent for the beginning of this, |
| 0:41.1 | I thought it was going to be like a different kind of British or like Australian or something. |
| 0:46.4 | Like Southern. |
| 0:47.5 | It's New York. |
| 0:48.8 | Actually, I was passing by some guy on the street on Times Square to get here today. |
| 0:53.1 | He said some things that I can't probably say it now, but it was just like classic. He was holding a big bag and he got more moron. And I was like, all right. That's awesome. That's New York. That is very inspirational. It feels like I can just do whatever I want to do. And I can just do it. Speaking of just doing things, do you know it would be so awesome? What? Is if everyone who's listening right now would go to iTunes and consider rating us so that other people can find our podcast. That would be so cool of you. You told me to say that and I forgot it because I'm not into self-promotion. Because I don't think that the guy who uses that voice would be saying, please go to iTunes. |
| 1:28.2 | Please go to iTunes. |
| 1:30.2 | What's iTunes? |
| 1:31.1 | Back it up. |
| 1:31.9 | What's iTunes? |
| 1:32.8 | What is that? |
| 1:33.6 | Was that some sort of like thing? |
| 1:36.0 | A music thing? |
| 1:37.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:39.8 | That was beautiful. |
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