Survey Says...
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
IS Margaret Atwood a bad feminist? Yeeeeeesh, we don't know. Frank and Gwen talk about the allegations against Aziz Ansari and then, thankfully, move onto books: nonfiction about young immigrants from El Salvador and a novel about a sci-fi dating experiment. Also, help us out by taking our survey at nypl.org/podcastsurvey!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm Gwen. |
| 0:18.1 | And I'm Ace of Base. |
| 0:19.9 | I saw the sign. There, we introduced it. It's in. |
| 0:23.9 | Okay. Now it's out of your system too. I know. Yes. No. I don't feel moved to sing it. |
| 0:28.9 | Oh, as I've said, I woke up hearing that song and realized it's a masterpiece. I learned a lot. |
| 0:35.9 | So before we get too far into the biography of Ace of Bass, I think it would be really funny to read a biography. I wonder if there is one. Or like a music biography. Yeah. There must be. There must be. I don't know. I don't know anything about them at all. Well. Okay. So before we get too far into this fascinating topic, we have an |
| 0:56.7 | important announcement to make, and Frank is going to make it. Well, we'd love for you guys who are |
| 1:01.0 | listening to take a survey to get data and information about who's listening to the podcast |
| 1:06.9 | and what people like and what you don't like and all sorts of info like that. |
| 1:13.0 | So if you just go to NYPL.org slash podcast survey made very easy and fill it out and let us |
| 1:23.8 | know what's what's on your mind and what we can do better. So repeat the URL, Gwen. |
| 1:29.4 | The URL is NYPL. |
| 1:31.6 | Yes, sir. |
| 1:32.6 | NYPL.org slash podcast survey. |
| 1:35.4 | So ferocious today. |
| 1:36.5 | And it's for, if you listen to both of the NYPL podcasts, both ours and the other podcast, |
| 1:43.2 | the celebrity driven one, you can take it for both of them |
| 1:47.3 | and give your feedback on them, or you can do one or you can do the other. Okay. Okay. Thanks. There, |
| 1:53.9 | what we did what the producer told us to do. We should do it the way that, like, public TV and public |
| 1:58.8 | radio do their, like, fundraising drives where we like talk |
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