Far Out, Friends: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 6
Welcome to The Librarian is In, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.
We're heading back to the '70s this week! Shola Lynch (of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) joins us to talk about film, art, collecting history, and what it's like to hug Bert from Sesame Street.
Ernie, Shola, and Bert learning to add and subtract! Image via the Muppet Wiki.
What We're Reading Now
Stoner by John Williams
Razzle Dazzle by Michael Ridel
Broadway! This musical about the Andrews Sisters, A Chorus Line, and Annie
The original playbill. One singular sensation!
Jefferson Market film series
NYPL's Library of the Performing Arts
Safekeeping by Jessamyn Hope
Hot Topix
Hooked by Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
FOMO (it's in Wikipedia!)
New Zadie Smith book, Swing Time. (Zadie Smith is part of our recent super podcast.)
Appointment Television podcast
Margret H. Willison and the Two Bossy Dames newsletter
The Bossy Dames LOVE gifs.
Kelly Bishop and "At the Ballet" from A Chorus Line
Guest Star
Shola Lynch, of NYPL's Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Shola's website and her Peabody Award for Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
"Needle Park" in the '70s
The Muppet Wiki with Shola's Sesame Street appearances
NYPL's Sesame Street exhibition
Big Bird at Lincoln Center, from the exhibition.
Schomburg's Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
Sound recording of the Great March to Washington and more recordings of A. Philip Randolph in NYPL's catalog
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Word of the Week
Frank: Exegesis (explaining a text)
Gwen: Girls. New season on HBO, Lena Dunham (check out earlier seasons of Girls AND her book from the Library), Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
Shola: Seriously. Because her daughter (and the rest of us) are learning how to give loving critiques!
Thanks for listening, and find us online @NYPLRecommends, the Bibliofile blog, and nypl.org. Or email us at recommendations@nypl.org!