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The Librarian Is In

Peyton DisPlaced

The Librarian Is In

The New York Public Library

Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.7595 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Another crossover episode with our fine friends from the Overdue podcast! Frank and Gwen join Craig and Andrew in Philadelphia to discuss the 1956 novel Peyton Place. Is it a classic? A soap opera? A groundbreaking statement about sexuality? Is it "ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle" — the first line of the book? You decide.

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0:00.0

Hi, 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. I'm Frank.

0:13.5

And today we are super excited to bring you our episode with the guys from Overdue, Craig and Andrew.

0:20.3

When Frank and I were in Philadelphia last month, we recorded this with them at Craig's

0:25.2

kitchen table.

0:26.1

It was awesome.

0:26.8

His wife was super nice.

0:27.7

Oh, they were very nice.

0:28.8

They were so, yeah, they welcomed us into their home, and we ate pizza and talked about

0:33.1

Peyton Place.

0:34.6

And Frank chose Peyton Place.

0:36.7

I did.

0:37.4

I mean, well, because Overdue Craig and Andrew do books, as you could get from the title

0:42.5

on their podcast, overdue.

0:44.2

Books they should have read or books one should have read or books you might have read

0:47.9

in high school and should revisit.

0:50.3

So books like that are overdue to be read again or to read for the, to be read

0:54.1

for the first time.

0:55.3

And so they had some ideas.

0:57.9

And I was, someone actually in my book discussion group at Jefferson Market had suggested this title,

1:02.9

Peyton Place.

1:04.0

And I was like, that's perfect because it could be fun.

1:06.4

I was about to go away to Mexico.

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