Glory Edim Is Just Getting Started
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Glory Edim, creator of the coolest book club on the Internet, joins Frank and Gwen to discuss book clubs and beyond! They talk about Well-Read Black Girl, empowered storytelling, the potentials and pitfalls of making book recommendations, Black writers in the diaspora and the canon... and focusing on the things that unite us all. Happy new year, friends!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. And I'm Frank. And we are so, so excited today to be here in our little studio with Glory |
| 0:22.6 | Edom. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Yay. And Glory |
| 0:28.4 | is the founder of the book club, well-read Black Girl, a group that celebrates black women, |
| 0:33.3 | writers, and readers, and she's also the editor of the new anthology of essays and conversations |
| 0:37.5 | titled Well-Red Black Girl, Colin, Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves. |
| 0:42.2 | Yes, that is it. |
| 0:43.7 | Thank you so much for coming today. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm so excited to talk about books with you. |
| 0:47.8 | I feel like I've been following your Instagram for like 20,000 years, and it's so cool |
| 0:53.6 | to finally have you here. But that's where you're the |
| 0:56.5 | well-read black girl began, right? Yes, it is Instagram. That's my favorite space to live. |
| 1:04.4 | We're on like Facebook and Twitter too, but I will say Instagram is always like my favorite because |
| 1:09.0 | you can like see the books. It's all about like taking the photo and sharing the quote and like actually making it feel like a digital library. |
| 1:18.6 | Awesome. |
| 1:19.7 | Can you tell us a little bit about like the online presence versus the in person presence and yeah. |
| 1:24.8 | Yeah, for sure. |
| 1:26.1 | So with online it's very much about discoverability. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm constantly trying to find titles that I've read or I want to add to my to be read list |
| 1:35.0 | and I'm highlighting their work. And I'm really drawn. I know this is a bad thing to say, |
| 1:40.9 | but I've often really drawn to the covers of books because there's just like |
| 1:44.3 | this beautiful aesthetic you can share on Instagram and you can always just like share your |
| 1:48.5 | every day. So whether like you're reading in bed or at the library or just like on the beach, |
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