Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm Frank.

I'm Gwen.

And later we'll be joined by Chantal Yuzin one of our favorite, favorite YA, young adult librarians.

Hey, Gwen.

Hey, Frank.

Thanks for letting me do the introduction.

I like it when you do the introduction.

I just did it straightforward.

I just like late night DJ.

I like, yes, or NPR voice.

NPR voice.

Soothing.

The Saturday Night Live skits where they talk about. Yeah. The NPR voices. It's very true. Everything's fine. Everything is fine. There's a subtext to that, isn't there? There is. Oh. There is. How are you doing? I'm okay. Yeah. I guess. The debate was last night or a little bit, uh, just

involved in, in American life. We were just talking about it, so we have to switch gears.

Yeah. I mean, there's a lot, there's a lot going on apparently, I mean, in the world, obviously,

as well as in the world of writing and books.

I was just listening to the thing about the MacArthur Genius Grants being awarded.

Did you hear who got it?

One of my favorite graphic novelists got it, actually, which is very appropriate for this podcast,

since we're going to be talking about comics and graphic novels later,

Jean Luan Yang, who wrote American-born Chinese, which is one of my favorite graphic novels to recommend people. Yeah, he just got a MacArthur Genius Grant. Yay, congratulations, and Claudia Rankine, the poet. And there was another author, too. Oh, Maggie Nelson, who wrote The Argonauts. Oh. Yeah.

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