The Beginning or the End?
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week, Gwen and Frank take on books ranging from the collapse of modern civilization to a murder "how-done-it" told exclusively from the point of view of a perspicacious fetus.
Get the full list of books discussed at www.nypl.org/podcast.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody, yeah. |
| 0:13.9 | Welcome to the librarian isn't starting. |
| 0:17.3 | This is happening. |
| 0:18.7 | The podcast, the NYPL podcast, where talk about books culture and what to read next. |
| 0:25.9 | I am Frank. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm going. |
| 0:30.4 | I didn't think this is going to be kept on. |
| 0:32.2 | Should we just keep it? |
| 0:33.1 | I think we should. |
| 0:34.1 | Because we're just getting ourselves going. |
| 0:35.3 | We had some technical difficulties, but we're back in action. coffee is kicking in the coffee is flowing here today yeah it's freezing |
| 0:42.3 | it's flowing it's keeping us on our toes you got to hustle through this because we got important |
| 0:46.7 | things to do today well I don't what the producer does um how are you Gwen I'm good Frank |
| 0:53.6 | how are you I guess I'm probably good, Frank. How are you? |
| 0:54.9 | I guess I'm probably going to pass out in the middle of this. |
| 0:58.4 | I'm just like, you know what? |
| 1:00.1 | Now is a good time to tell people that we officially are going to PLA, the Public Library Association Conference. |
| 1:07.0 | I guess it is official. |
| 1:07.8 | We're doing it. |
| 1:09.1 | So if anybody wants to come meet Frank and bring him a cup of coffee, |
| 1:12.7 | you will be able to find us or meet me. We are going to be there. And I think we have tentative plans |
| 1:19.8 | for a sort of roving reporter type situation where we're going to be wandering around with a microphone. |
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