The Great Work Continues
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Frank and Gwen's discussion with Dan Kois on Angels in America continues (an epic conversation in two parts!) Plus: a trip to The New York Public Library of Performing Arts in the Upper West Side. Doug Reside, Curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Division, gives a tour of the collections and pulls out some Angels ephemera to help put the play in its historical context.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, |
| 0:09.9 | culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. And I'm Tony Kushner. I wish I were. I wish I could |
| 0:14.4 | write that way. No, I'm Frank. I wish you were Tony Kushner too. What? The schism begins. |
| 0:22.1 | The great work begins. |
| 0:24.0 | That for anyone who didn't know is an Angels in America reference, because today we |
| 0:28.2 | are picking up where we left off last week with our interview with Dan Cois. |
| 0:32.4 | It was so great to talk to him that we just couldn't condense it all into one show. |
| 0:37.2 | So here is part two of the interview with him, and we hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:41.4 | You know, the play really does play fluidly on a stage. |
| 0:45.5 | It's super intense and immersive. |
| 0:49.5 | And I think that the play has that effect, in part because you're there for so long, because |
| 0:55.3 | you've had so long to forget about all the other stuff in your life that would otherwise |
| 1:02.8 | be occupying you. |
| 1:04.8 | You're so in the world of the play. |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.6 | I love that. |
| 1:08.5 | And it's like reading in that way, right? |
| 1:10.0 | Like a really great reading |
| 1:11.3 | experience has the same effect. It excludes the rest of the world and puts you in the world |
| 1:18.3 | of that book. And it's created more imaginatively through your own brain. It's not set there |
| 1:25.2 | in front of you with a bunch of good actors acting it up, but it has a |
| 1:27.7 | pretty similar effect on your brain. And I'm so delighted to hear you both talk about the effect |
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