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Oh, welcome to The Librarian is In. The podcast, Gwen, just do it.

Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

Oh, I'm Gwen. I'm Frank. And today, Frank and I are going to talk about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. I'm Frank. And today, Frank and I are going to talk about books. And next week, we are going to talk to Linda Murray from the Library of the Performing Arts. She is a dance curator. Yeah. Curator? Yes, that's her title. Oh, you don't say curator? Curator. Do you say curator?

Curator, curator.

Interesting.

We'll ask her. I think they said curator. Is that wrong? I might be wrong. I like it. All right. I mean, I don't think it's wrong. Listeners, please weigh in on my pronunciation. But we will talk to it. I actually felt I'd be interesting to know what a curator or curator does in the dance division.

Yes. She does particularly.

She's like head curator. you'll talk to. I actually felt, I'd be interesting to know what a curator or curator

does in the dance division that she does particularly. She's like head curator. I'm not sure. We'll have to ask her. Her title is just dance curator. Curator? Oh my gosh. Now I'm never going to be able to say that word for as long as I live. This is a very fluffy podcast. This is quite a week. I feel like this is another week where I am coming to this with a lot on my mind and a lot that's going on in the country.

That is very troubling.

And I'm also trying to be conscious of why people listen to this podcast, which is not to hear us talk about politics necessarily,

but maybe just a good reminder that everybody is thinking

a lot of deep thoughts about a lot of stuff

that is troubling and awful right now.

While we also give, and I kind of actually

based my book recommendations on that this week,

one very serious and I think important memoir and one

extremely fluffy comic book about roller derby. I actually have the same pairing. Like I have one

very intense book and one much more on the lighter side. But what you said about politics,

it's like, sure, I think everything we talk about comes

out of what we're reading and what we're reading sometimes is because of what's going on like you just

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