This Episode Was Really Hard To Title
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Gwen goes nuts for an alt-history about hippo ranching (IT COULD HAVE BEEN A REAL THING!), and Frank goes nuts for a memoir by incomparable actor and role model Gabourey Sidibe.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm a menorah. |
| 0:14.1 | All right. |
| 0:16.0 | What are you? |
| 0:17.8 | I'm nothing, apparently. |
| 0:19.1 | I can't even, how do I deal with that? |
| 0:20.4 | You could be a dreidel? You could be... Well, you already have the Jewish thing down. I'm nothing, apparently. I can't even, how do I deal with that? You could be a dreidel. You could be... Well, you already have the Jewish thing down. I can... All right, well, so you could be a Christmas tree. I could be a lot of other things. What about, I don't know. How many days of Kwanza are there? I can picture the candles. Yeah. And the colors. Candles. Actually, I'm a holiday candle. |
| 0:39.3 | You're a holiday candle. It seems like candles are in all celebrations of religious holidays. |
| 0:46.5 | Because they all go back to solstice, right? It's all about bringing light to the darkness and stuff. Yeah, I think so. |
| 0:51.6 | I don't know. You don't come here to learn about religious philosophy. And the eighth day of Hanukkah. I don't know. And they used to put candles on Christmas trees. Really? Which I don't suggest. That sounds like a fire hazard. I guess. But, you know, they weren't electric lights, you know, forever. Yeah. What are we talking about? I have no idea. How did we get on this? You're a |
| 1:11.5 | menorah. I was choosing holiday symbols. I'm a menorah. So where are we? We're heading into |
| 1:18.1 | Oh my goodness. I don't know where we are. I'll tell you where I am actually. I am in a headspace |
| 1:24.3 | about hippos. We are going to be talking about hippos a lot today because I read a book called River |
| 1:31.4 | of Teeth by Sarah Gaylee, G-A-I-L-E-Y, which is so good. |
| 1:37.8 | I officially feel like I'm over my reading slump of a month or two ago or whatever that |
| 1:41.5 | was. |
| 1:42.3 | This is a novella. |
| 1:44.2 | It is an alt history, which is a genre that I ago or whenever that was. This is a novella. It is an alt history, |
| 1:45.6 | which is a genre that I like very much in case people don't know about it. |
| 1:50.2 | Alt history is sort of like a retelling of history if it had gone in a different |
| 1:55.9 | direction. |
| 1:56.6 | So a lot of them, |
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