Hello and welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I am Frank. And I'm Rhonda. And here. We're here on our, actually, we've done a couple of podcasts together. And now this is our first one. We're actually going to discuss books that we've read individually. Yes, super excited. Because a lot of what we're doing on this podcast is going to talk about the New York Public Library's 125 Books We Love List,

celebrating the 125th anniversary of the library.

So cute.

But today we're going to talk about just what we've been reading.

But we should maybe announce our next book that we're going to read together

and that we invite our listeners to

read along with us. And this podcast is going to be April 9th. April 9th. So you've got a month

if you'd like to read along with us and the book is. So let's see. Our April 9th book club

book is A Good Man is Hard to Find in Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor.

So run out to your local library branch and get your copy so that you can read it and

participate, so to speak, in the discussion with us on April 9th.

So get ready, folks. I'm excited. You know that May West quote? I shouldn't say, God, I shouldn't go to that. Well, you know, you can't leave me hanging now. What is the May West? Ney West has a connection to my library, actually, Jefferson Market Library. Okay. Was she an inmate there? She was brought in on charges of obscenity.

Oh, I knew. I think I knew that story.

Yeah, and held in the jail next door. If any of you out there know who Mae West is, she was a seriously salacious wit of the 1930s and movie star.

But she had a quote that was a riff on A Good Man is hard to find. I'm not going to go further than that.

Okay.

She sort of inverted the two words good and, yeah.

Oh, I'm going to be edited here.

Huh?

Do people know the history of Jefferson Market?

I think I've talked about it before.

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