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The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Sweet-sad poems, ghosts of the Village Past, and melancholy post-Victorian tales of ruined childhoods in creeepy cults... But we manage to have a little fun, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. And I'm Gloria Estefan. And today we're going to conga you. And the Miami Sound Machine are here. |
| 0:19.1 | The Miami Sound Machine are here. How great would that be? |
| 0:22.0 | Our guest. |
| 0:23.6 | Actually, no guest today, just us. |
| 0:25.6 | Right, just us today. |
| 0:26.9 | If that disturbs any listeners, just tune out. |
| 0:29.2 | Right. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm sorry about the Miami Sound Machine. |
| 0:32.0 | This is really disappointing. |
| 0:33.7 | We tried. |
| 0:34.2 | But next week, we are going to have Jay Vissers, who is the, he's a senior librarian at the picture collection in Mid-Manhattan and the winner of our spelling bee. |
| 0:45.7 | We're making it an annual tradition to have the spelling bee winner on every year. |
| 0:49.5 | But this week? |
| 0:50.6 | This week, I have two clarifications I would like to make at the top of the show. |
| 0:55.4 | Okay. Frank just stretched his mouth. Oh. Okay, I have two clarifications. One is a friend |
| 1:03.1 | considerably pointed out that I threw some shade at cardigans last week. And I'm here to say, |
| 1:09.4 | I like cardigans. I have one on right now. And I am |
| 1:13.7 | pro cardigan. I am sorry that I use that as the representation for the librarian stereotype. What I was |
| 1:18.6 | trying to really say was that there's a stereotype that librarians are quiet. We've talked about this |
| 1:22.9 | a million times. It is not necessarily true. Many of us are not quiet. And cardigans have nothing to do with it, |
| 1:29.1 | and I am sorry, Cardigans. Yeah, we just like have to get over that stereotype in every way. |
| 1:34.3 | Yes. Like we should be able to make fun of it and use it, but it's just, it's just nothing. Yeah. |
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