Wallow with Me

The Librarian Is In

The New York Public Library

Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.7 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Come stare moodily out a lonely window with us! Frank falls into a book trance after reading a French novel with a double meaning in its title, and Gwen unpacks a heartbreaker about a woman who leaves Jamaica for Brooklyn.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody.
0:15.4	Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen.
0:21.6	And I'm Frank. And I'm Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins has joined us today in the studio. And I'm a Dick Van Dykebad, British accent. Cockney. Our wonderful beloved James has an amazing British accent. Our wonderful beloved. No one knows what you're talking about, do they?
0:35.9	The guy who runs the studio where we record, who is not beholden to us but is nonetheless a great friend.
0:42.4	He has a more posh accent.
0:43.5	He's very posh.
0:44.6	We're totally making fun of him.
0:45.7	He said he's not posh.
0:46.7	He said it's actually just that Americans always think that Brits sound posh when they speak.
0:51.1	Like, and I'm frying.
0:52.7	He said, I'm screaming into the mic again.
0:54.5	I'm pretty sure
0:55.0	that's not posh.
1:12.0	Anywho. Anywho. All right. Well, so we're going to lead this hot topics off on a personal note. Oops. Uh-oh. Really? Is it killer? I think we are. I think it's time to rip off. It's time to rip off the bandaid.
1:20.9	So I actually have a new job, which is in the library system close to my home.
1:24.7	And I get to be a YA librarian again for teens and tweens.
1:29.1	And it was a whole confluence of things that happened. I'm still working for NYPL in different ways, but I also have a new job and it's really great. Well, I was
1:37.6	saying you're back on the front line. So I just want to ask you, like, before you were in the
1:42.4	recommendations, Reader's Advisory Department, and you
1:45.3	were in an office, what's the first thing that's different about working in the front line,
1:51.0	working on a desk as opposed to working in an office?
1:54.3	It's so much more physical.
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