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The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Frank and Gwen are all about feminist texts this week. They go back in time with the classic short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" — which is also NYPL's newest Insta Novel — and then hit the present (hard) with "Red Clocks." In between, there's a beautiful picture book for kids. Plus: Frank figures out a literary puzzle.
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do I'm trying to do the music. |
| 0:17.5 | Did I do it? |
| 0:18.2 | Our music? |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.7 | Do it again? |
| 0:20.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:21.1 | Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:24.0 | That sounds good. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm making it up. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to the library and is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Frank. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Gwen. |
| 0:36.9 | And we're here to talk about all sorts of bookish |
| 0:39.6 | things, correct? Correct. Am I correct? Like, just make sure I'm the right place. Like, |
| 0:44.3 | where am I? No, I'm sorry. This is a surfing podcast. I'm so sorry. Did you take the curl? |
| 0:50.1 | Or did you, was it gnarly out there? It was gnarly dude. You know, that's funny you should say that, because I, for about 25 minutes in my life, had a fantasy about being a surfer. Really? Because I love the ocean. To grow up, like, on the West Coast and just be, like, very physical and in touch with nature like that. And also have really blonde hair and have a great |
| 1:12.0 | surfer body that's really more to the point my uh my supervisor lynn who has been on this podcast |
| 1:19.4 | her husband and her kids are both are all very into surfing and so she listens to a surfing |
| 1:26.4 | podcast so i think that's why it's |
| 1:27.7 | kind of in my head they're New York surfers yeah does that really count Lynn I do not know |
| 1:35.9 | where do they go to the Rockaway oh yeah it's it's not like West Coast surfing no like I know |
| 1:43.8 | anything about it. |
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