Harry Potter Meets Jane Eyre
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter, Gwen and Frank fall hard for the wise and wonderful Vanessa Zoltan of the Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast! We talk Harry and Jane, try the spiritual practice of lectio divina, discuss the healing power of romance novels, figure out Frank's Tinder profile... get ready for some serious revelations.
Vanessa's book recs:
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
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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. Frank. And we are so excited today to be joined by Vanessa Zoltan from the Harry Potter and the |
| 0:21.7 | Sacred Text Podcast. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, guys. Thanks for having me on. Thank you for coming. Where are you |
| 0:27.3 | calling in from today? I'm calling in from where we squat. So we squat in Harvard University's media |
| 0:33.9 | studios in Cambridge. Delightful. Wow. Yeah. |
| 0:37.8 | In the halls of Harvard. |
| 0:39.6 | It's very fancy. |
| 0:40.9 | So I feel like we need to get down to it because we started saying a minute ago that this is the very last podcast of the librarian is in where I am ever allowed to talk about Harry Potter. |
| 0:52.8 | Who said that? |
| 0:53.7 | I don't know where you're getting at from a point. The big. Who said that? I don't know where you're getting at, Frank. |
| 0:54.8 | The big giant producer said that. |
| 0:57.8 | When I deny what I said before. |
| 0:59.9 | You can talk about whatever you want. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm not here to tell you what to think or be. |
| 1:04.1 | I love Harry Potter. |
| 1:05.1 | I've read all the books. |
| 1:07.0 | So Vanessa, you should know that Frank has read exactly one of the books, the first one, and only because I forced him to. |
| 1:14.5 | Okay. |
| 1:15.5 | I mean, so reading under duress is never like the best way to read. |
| 1:19.3 | It was a challenge. |
| 1:20.7 | Okay. |
| 1:21.9 | So I will say that I was the same as you. |
| 1:24.1 | I read the first book like years ago when I was in college and I was like, |
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