Hi, welcome to the librarian as in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to be next in unison.

I'm Gwen.

And I'm Frank.

Oh, I hate saying my name.

I like it when we do that.

And today, we're going to be joined by Chante Burns, whom we love, and she is the outreach librarian.

She is an outreach librarian here with the My Library NYC program, which she will tell us all about when she gets here.

She's involved with a lot of different things.

She is. We're also doing this later than usual because we had a big snowstorm on Tuesday, the usual day we record and everything was shut down. Yes. So God knows. That was a delightful snowstorm. That was a good way to go out. Yeah, so we're recording late. We are. We are. So we'll see when this gets on. During the snow day, I did a lot of reading, did you?

Not a lot, but I did some. I went, I actually trudged into work because I was like going, I was like going to, I live near the library of Jefferson Market. I work in and I do like going in when no one's there because there's a sort of like I I wander around and no one's there and I'm by myself. And it's just sort of a chance to sort of, I don't know, take in the environment and just sort of let something inspire me. Like I get ideas that way. Like I'll look at the spaces. I'll just contemplate the collections. And it's sort of just like a quiet time for me in the library. But of course, everybody who we knew we were going to close the day before, and all the staff was like, I bet you'll be here. And I was like, probably. But I did read a little bit. That's like from the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basilie Frankweiler. It's sort of a childhood thing. Yeah. To be alone in the library I feel magical being alone in a library, even though it's the library, I've worked it for a very

long time. So that's what I did. So what did you do? Read, I guess, books that you're going

to discuss today? Well, yes. One in particular. So I finished up a book called The Hate

You Give by Angie Thomas.

Have you heard about this book?

No.

It is making a huge splash in the YA world.

And it's a very, it's an amazing book, first of all.

People are calling it a sort of like Black Lives Matter book, which it definitely has very clear and deliberate parallels.

So the story is about, but it also like really goes beyond being about a movement or being

about any sort of concept and is really about these incredible characters.

There's a girl who is riding in a car with one of her old childhood friends. Both of them are black. A white

officer stops them and the driver of the car. And this isn't ruining anything because it all

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