New Fiction! New Fiction!
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Gwen gets fired up about reading—you guessed it—new fiction this year, while Frank dips into the backlist of a new favorite author. Plus: New Year's resolutions, The Bachelor, and the best short stories of 2018.
Book Recommendations
Best American Short Stories 2018, ed. by Roxane Gay
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
Encocylopedia Britannica's quick summary of "Beowulf"—or check out lots of versions of the actual poem from the Library
Non-Book Recommendations
- The panel Gwen is speaking on at ALA Midwinter: "So You Want to Podcast." Come say hi!
- Vice
- Nina LaCour's podcast, Keeping a Notebook
- The Bachelor
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the library and is in the New York Public Library podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Frank. |
| 0:19.9 | Frank, you got it. I'm Glenn. I think that's your |
| 0:22.6 | first time that you ever did it right on the first try. We're high-fiving. New Year, New Me. |
| 0:28.9 | Speaking of the New Year. Are you going to talk about your hair? Frank is a new hair do. I totally am. |
| 0:34.6 | I've been talking about it for the last 20 minutes. It's just growing. It's so nice. It's really curly. |
| 0:39.4 | I think I realized when I had, I haven't had, I guess I must have. I've had hair. |
| 0:43.8 | I had hair like this when I was a teenager and I of course hated it because it was really curly and hard to manage. |
| 0:49.2 | And now I'm like, I have it. I still have it. And now the curls don't bother me. I'm like, let it fly. |
| 0:54.9 | Curls are cute. I know. So I'm playing with it. Ow. I'm like twisting my hair. It adds several |
| 1:00.1 | inches to your already existing height. Prodigious frame. Your prodigious height. |
| 1:05.3 | How tall are you? I'm going to, six one? Six two. With the hair you're six four. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm not going to talk about your hair because you're |
| 1:13.1 | complaining you were complaining about it all the way in you're wearing a bandana because you're like |
| 1:16.9 | i just can't have to get it out of my face i just can't with my hair i just can't even though i like |
| 1:22.4 | your look today thank you it's very like scrappy even though my whole family thought i was wearing |
| 1:27.2 | pajamas i know but i just like i said it looks like you're going to run out and play stick ball on the street Thank you. It's very, like, scrappy. Even though my whole family thought I was wearing pajamas. |
| 1:27.7 | I know, but I just, like I said, it looks like you're going to run out and play stickball on the street and play really dirty. You look like a scrapper. Right after we're finished recording us, I'm going to go play some stickball. You're like, hey, fellas, let's go. Let's play kick the can. No fair. Hey, the cops are coming. |
| 1:26.0 | Gwen's like, |
| 1:26.6 | so I wanted to ask you, though, |
| 1:28.9 | how is your |
| 1:48.0 | holiday season? It was really good. It was really relaxing, actually. I've read a lot of books. |
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