The Gods Are Alright. But the Humans...
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Greek mythology and contemporary fiction join forces this week! Gwen and Frank read two books that make readers ask, what would you do—or, what should you do?
Book Recommendations:
Golden Child by Claire Adam
The audiobook of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman
Also mentioned:
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Odyssey , translated by Emily Wilson
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Here Come the 123s! by They Might Be Giants, and also please watch the amazing video of the "Never Go to Work" song (guaranteed to change your life for the better)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. 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 am Frank. I went for it. |
| 0:21.5 | Undecided. |
| 0:23.0 | Just the legit Frank. |
| 0:24.2 | The legit Frank. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.4 | The one and only. |
| 0:31.7 | So before we get started, we just wanted to say again, thank you for all of the people who have submitted poetry. |
| 0:34.4 | We're prepping for that episode right now. |
| 0:40.1 | We can't wait to bring it to you and it's going to be really cool. |
| 0:44.4 | We're going to read a bunch of poems that you have submitted. We're going to listen to a lot of you who have called us to submit poems and it's not too late also. So if you want to still call us |
| 0:50.6 | and read a poem that is meaningful to you or that you care about a lot. You can call us |
| 0:55.1 | at 507 NYPL Live. That's 507 NYPL Live. Or you can email us at podcasts at NYPL.org. You can |
| 1:07.6 | attach a voice memo. You can just type the text of the poem. And we also love to know a |
| 1:12.8 | little bit of context about why this poem means something to you or why you care about it or why you |
| 1:18.1 | think we should take a look at it. Do you have email anxiety, Gwen? I'm saying that. Well, I'm saying that |
| 1:26.1 | because like we've gotten a lot of responses |
| 1:28.0 | so far for the poetry and people have emailed voice clips and poems and I want to respond |
| 1:36.0 | to all of them right now and we're sort of banking them for the producer to produce all of them |
| 1:42.9 | please when we need them. |
| 1:44.7 | Getting very demanding in my superstardom. |
| 1:46.6 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:47.1 | And so it feels weird when I say email anxiety not to respond to someone who's so, these |
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