Cozy Intellectualism and/or Baby Marginalia
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We all love libraries, but what books do you just NEED to own? Frank coins a new genre, Gwen falls for a book about mistakes, and they both share some deep thoughts about the oxford comma.
This Week's Books:
The Grammarians by Cathleen Shine
The Other's Gold by Elizabeth Ames
Dreyer's English : An Utterly correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. And I'm Ann Miller. Hi, Ann Miller. Hi. How are you doing today? I'm going to tap |
| 0:22.1 | dance for you today. Oh, please do. Machine gun taps, baby. Do you know that? Up, up, but up, but up. Ann Miller. Hi, Gwen. Hi, Frank. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? I'm okay. It's a beautiful day today. It is a beautiful day today. It made me really happy to read a bunch of the mail that we have |
| 0:22.0 | received recently. Should we talk about some of that? For sure. Yeah. Please. All right. What was on your, which one's on your mind? The one, okay, there's two that are on my mind. One is our, is going to be our hot topic. Maybe we'll do that one. Second. but the one that is topmost on my mind is a really |
| 0:55.4 | sweet iTunes comment we just got about the episode descriptions in iTunes and about |
| 1:01.5 | making sure that we put the books and other resources we talk about in the description. |
| 1:08.6 | We are going to try to do that. We have been doing that in the past, |
| 1:12.0 | but I'm not sure we've been like 100% consistent. So we definitely will try to do it going forward. |
| 1:17.4 | And if we ever mess up, which could happen, you know, we're not entirely perfect all the time, |
| 1:22.8 | just most of the time, you can always go to our blog posts at nypl.org slash podcast. And we definitely always put those up and we always put the time. You can always go to our blog posts at NYPL.org slash podcast, and we definitely |
| 1:29.7 | always put those up, and we always put the links there. So, I have no idea what you're talking about. |
| 1:36.8 | Neither do probably 90% of our listeners. I fell asleep for about 30 seconds in there. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, that usually happens when people listen to talk. |
| 1:45.0 | I see. |
| 1:45.7 | All the things we talk about are on the NYPL blog post, but they're not, the books are not listed in iTunes. |
| 1:51.9 | We try to put them in iTunes. |
| 1:53.3 | I see. |
| 1:53.8 | I don't actually know how about platforms. |
| 1:55.9 | Oh, you've got so many platforms. |
| 1:59.6 | But no, that is something that I often feel very frustrated with with other podcasts when they're talking and talking about something. |
| 2:06.2 | And they said the name of it at the very beginning and I tuned it out and didn't hear it. |
| 2:09.7 | And then I have no idea what they're talking about and they never repeat it at the end. |
| 2:13.2 | So we've been trying to get better with that on our Facebook TV show also, which has just come back for the fall. |
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