Time(less) Travel
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Book synergy abounds! Frank rediscovers Anne Frank's diary in a newly released graphic novel, Gwen becomes obsessed with a group of time-traveling historians, and everyone absorbs the small details of day-to-day lives during World War II.
Book Recommendations
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, adapted by Ari Folman and illustrated by David Polonsky
Blackout by Connie Willis (All Clear is the second book in the series, plus much more of her work in the catalog)
Non-Book Recommendations
Sandhya Menon's Twitter post that helped Gwen understand how people feel when you mispronounce their names.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, darling. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, darling. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to the librarian is in. |
| 0:11.4 | New York Public Libraries podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | About books, culture, and what's read next? |
| 0:16.1 | I'm Mary Poppins. |
| 0:17.4 | And I'm Zha Jajaj Gabor. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, darling. |
| 0:21.6 | Come to the librarian is in. |
| 0:24.5 | Take, take a moment to the librarian as in. |
| 0:27.3 | I don't know what accent I'm doing. |
| 0:29.0 | Any accent that I try always defaults to the same one, which is usually a old man speaking |
| 0:34.2 | English. |
| 0:35.3 | Well, actually, you can sort of do the, like, a faux uppity, bruce yourself. |
| 0:41.3 | That's just because I've been listening to the Mary Poppin soundtrack for the last several weeks with my son who loves it, and we're quite enamored. |
| 0:49.3 | Did you love that movie? |
| 0:50.3 | I liked it very much. |
| 0:52.3 | It's a little long to take a four-year-old to a theater for. |
| 0:55.6 | It's very long, generally. But it's also great. It's, like, totally whimsical. It was really fun. Mary Poppins returns, that is. I wonder if he'll, like, it'll be, like, in his consciousness forever. I think about that all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Like what he'll remember if this movie will be as much of a touchstone as the original. |
| 0:53.9 | Right. |
| 0:54.6 | Right. |
| 0:55.0 | And sort of just what his earliest memories are going to be, because I feel like my earliest memories were around the age that he is now. And so I'm like, oh, God, we're going to be on the record. Do you have a memory from four? I think I have a memory from three, actually. I think I have a couple from preschool. Like, I remember braiding my preschool teacher's hair, which must have been a very rigorous curricula. I mean, good for her for wanting a bunch of three-year-olds to touch her hair. But yeah, I remember her showing us how to braid. She had very long hair, and she showed us how to, like, yeah. Anyway, so were you supposed to talk about books or something? I'm like, no, just what my earliest memory was. I don't know. Yeah. I think it's... Do you remember, like, school from being really little? No, actually, I have a memory of being very low to the ground. Oh, that's interesting. And seeing a pair of feet come towards me. |
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