Reading Us the (Book) Riot Act: Ep. 15
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Nelson, managing editor of Book Riot and host of BR's own book recommendation podcast, joins Frank and Gwen to discuss book recommendations. (What else?)
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| 0:00.0 | Hacting. |
| 0:10.0 | All right, should we go? |
| 0:11.0 | You ready? |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, you just straight up. |
| 0:14.0 | Maximum schick. |
| 0:15.0 | Okay. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. And I'm Frank. And later, we will be joined by Amanda Nelson, who is the managing editor of a little website you may have heard of called Book Riot. We're going to be talking to her long distance. Yes, she's our first for this show. So we have technology to deal with. |
| 0:38.4 | Right. |
| 0:38.8 | Hopefully it'll be fine. |
| 0:39.8 | We just leave that to the producers. |
| 0:40.6 | We have the master producers. |
| 0:42.2 | Exactly. Of course it'll be fine. We have both of them back. The whole team is back together again. If it doesn't work, I'll have a tantrum, but it won't be on the air anyway because they're going to cut it out. because the subways were messed up this morning. |
| 0:37.1 | But anyway, we're leaving that behind. |
| 0:39.1 | We should have an on-air tantrum. |
| 0:41.0 | That would be really entertaining. because the subways were messed up this morning. But anyway, we're leaving that behind. |
| 0:55.2 | We should have an on-air tantrum. |
| 0:52.0 | That would be really entertaining. A diva fit. Yes. I'm having a diva fit. My son has started having little mini tantrums. It's not like full on, throw himself on the ground, but like he stomps his feet. It's like he read a manual about how to be two. |
| 0:53.3 | And he's like, okay, well, now I'm two. |
| 0:55.7 | So now I'm going to stamp my feet when I don't get what I want. |
| 1:11.5 | And it's two. ground, but like he stomps his feet. It's like he read a manual about how to be two, and he's like, okay, well, now I'm two, so now I'm going to stamp my feet when I don't get what I want. |
| 1:14.2 | And it's hilarious. |
| 1:15.4 | He'll be too soon. |
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