Hello, 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. And I'm Rita Hayworth.

Rita Hayworth and I are really sad today, and we're leading with this,

because we just found out that one of our amazing producers is leaving,

and she's on to bigger and better pastors,

and she's going to one of my favorite cities, Baltimore, but we're still sad.

We're not in the, like, happy for you phase yet. We're not in the like happy for you phase yet.

We're still in this sad for us. She hit it with us just two minutes ago. But it's okay. It's life and

life does things. Life does things. And we're happy for you. We have to, we have to get over our

own sad for ourselves phase and move on to the good for you. We should get over it. She just couldn't

bear doing one more podcast to us. Right. She's told us that it's because her boyfriend has his dream job there, but I think the real reason is because she hates us and needs to move to a different state. I'll go with that. It works with my mindset. My psychological mindset. Anyway, okay, we're going to try to cheer up. I feel a little deflated, but it's fine. It's fine. She's going to do awesome things with her super cute dog in Baltimore. I'll be good. Okay. So we also have no guest today because it's August. It's a barren wasteland, basically. It's a barren wasteland here. That's the name of the podcast. I really, yeah, that's right. I blame the weather for this. Dead inside. Because it's disgusting. Podcast 13. This is podcast 19. Oh, wow. Episode dead inside. No, it's disgusting in the city and it's so hot and no one wants to go anywhere

and everything smells like hot garbage, literally, not metaphorically hot garbage. It sounds like

my autobiography title. Hot Garbage, the Frank Hilarious story. I don't know. Your self title could be

dead inside then. Or anything. You know, this is all just, ugh, because I finished, and I, this is a little life.

I finished a little life.

A little life by Hanya Yanekehara this morning.

I actually was reading it last night and thought I'd saved the last pages for this morning,

and I'd finished it this morning.

And it's, yeah, I mean, on top of everything else, just this morning and I finished it this morning.

And it's, yeah, I mean, on top of everything else, it's just sort of like, I just want to curl up.

Yeah.

So it doesn't, I take it it doesn't end with everyone riding on a unicorn into the sunset. But, you know, I see, I just don't want to put that across.

It's not like, oh my God, it's so depressing.

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