Dragons and Robots
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A look at how some libraries reflect the communities they're a part of through their special collections. Plus, Gwen's son weighs in on a children's book with some very un-scary dragons and Frank dives into some mind-bending stories about alternate realities and the nature of consciousness.
This weeks titles:
Rise of the Earth Dragon by Tracey West
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. I'm Frank. |
| 0:18.6 | And we're going to start out with a little hot topic. Wait, before you do your hot topic. Okay. I just want to tell you something that's going to make you pee green with envy. Oh, I can't wait. I had a fan visit. No. At Jefferson Market. Yes, I did. And it was, I was, oh, my, I can't even describe how sweet and wonderful it was. |
| 0:40.2 | Jefferson Market, as you know, is under renovations in my library. |
| 0:43.4 | So it's half closed. |
| 0:45.1 | And so when people visit for the first time, I'm always like, oh, half of us are closed. |
| 0:49.5 | And I always do this long explanation. |
| 0:51.4 | But I came out of an office and there was this family appearing standing |
| 0:55.9 | there and they had that sort of expectant smiley-faced look on their faces that looked like |
| 1:00.8 | something was happening. And I was like, what's happening? And then the mom came over to me and |
| 1:05.3 | just said, hi, we recognize your voice and the librarian is in. And we came from Columbus, Ohio, |
| 1:10.4 | to visit New York and coming to Jefferson Market and meeting me, I guess, was one of the things on their list. Oh, my gosh. That's so nice. I immediately got very shy, not. I immediately went into performance crazy mode. Like the hurt. She had three kids with them, her with her, three kids and her, and they were so sweet, so smart and so lovely that I just was so impressed. |
| 1:37.1 | And then they had me sign my autograph in their travel book. |
| 1:40.9 | Wow. |
| 1:41.6 | Which is the part that's going to make you so jealous. |
| 1:43.6 | I am jealous. Nobody's ever asked me for an autograph. That's so wonderful. They said, would you sign our travel book? I was like, are you crazy? What do you mean? Sign your travel book? Nobody. And so I wrote to my favorite fans of the librarian is in Frank. Oh my gosh. Is that the first time you ever signed an autograph? Yeah Yeah not in your theater days |
| 2:02.0 | You didn't autograph things |
| 2:03.0 | Well maybe I don't know |
| 2:04.0 | As a joke |
| 2:04.6 | But I so I just want to sum up and say |
| 2:06.6 | This family |
| 2:07.2 | Hello if you're listening from Columbus |
| 2:09.6 | Ohio |
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