Halloween Comes Early
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
As fall sets in and Halloween approaches, things get a little creeeeeeepy in the studio as Frank and Gwen bravely welcome horror expert and YA librarian Brian Stokes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the librarian is in. |
| 0:11.3 | You're like, welcome to the library as in. |
| 0:15.2 | I have the same accent. |
| 0:17.3 | Bebebebebebebe. |
| 0:17.7 | Exactly. |
| 0:18.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.2 | The podcast, let's see if I could do it from memory, the podcast that talks about books, culture, and what to read next. Okay, you got that part. I'm Gwen. But where are we? Where are we? We're in New York. From the New York Public Library. Oh, that old thing. We're from and work for the New York Public Library. |
| 0:38.7 | This is going to be edited heavily. |
| 0:42.0 | How are you, Gwen? |
| 0:43.1 | I'm good. |
| 0:43.6 | Was that enough to say everything? |
| 0:44.7 | Sure. |
| 0:44.9 | Except you didn't introduce Brian. |
| 0:47.4 | Oh, well. |
| 0:48.9 | We're going to have a special guest later named Brian Stokes. |
| 0:52.8 | He's a teen librarian, young adult librarian for the New |
| 0:55.4 | Republic Library. More details to follow. Oh, okay. Good job. See what I want to reveal or not? |
| 1:02.1 | So what's on your radar? I can go quickly since I know you have a lot. I don't know if I have a |
| 1:08.0 | lot. I never know. Okay. So don't go quickly. Do do your own thing. lot. I don't know if I have a lot. I never know. But don't go quickly. |
| 1:11.8 | Do your own thing. Okay. I, well, something I didn't do quickly. Here's a terrible segue. |
| 1:17.3 | So this committee that I've been talking about at infinitum with the young adult books, |
| 1:23.3 | this was like our real sort of last gasp of like you have to read stuff because the final decisions are going to be made next week. |
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