What, Wait, What Happened?! The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 9
Gwen and Frank discuss books that defy description and throw reality for a loop. Longtime residents of Harlem, Greenwich Village, the Bronx, and more get shout-outs in an interview with NYPL's Alex Kelly about the Library's oral history projects. Plus, Times Square and the attack of the Elmos. (Elmoes? Elmii?)
They're everywhere...
What We're Reading Now
The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
Rupert Thomson: The Five Gates of Hell, Soft!, Katherine Carlisle (and theNew Yorker review that Frank was reading)
The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks, and the Carnegie Medal controversy
A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na
Hot Topix
Where to even begin with James Patterson's books?
Patterson's BookShots (and the New York Times story) and grants for school libraries
The cool new transcript editor
Hara Seltzer's interview, with Frank's unexpected guest appearance
Word of the Week
Alex: "Tell me"
Gwen: Neil Gaiman and his 2013 speech about libraries
Frank: insouciant
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