Closer to Fine: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 12
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Along with Susen Shi from Mid-Manhattan Library, Frank and Gwen reveal their librarianship origin stories on this week's episode. Plus: Self-help books, plays in print, and the legacy of the Indigo Girls.
What We're Reading Now
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Sarah Ruhl:
- The Oldest Boy
- The videorecording from the Research Collections at the Library of the Performing Arts
- Montage on YouTube from the reading at the Lincoln Center Theater
- In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
- Her appearance at Books at Noon
A still from the reading of The Oldest Boy at the Lincoln Center Theater (image via Lincoln Center Theater YouTube channel)
Katy and the Big Snow and Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Faux-Werner Herzog reading Mike Mulligan
Guest Star
Susen, in the lower left corner
NYPL's Immigrant Services and Correctional Services
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Justin Kirk! Oh right.
Word of the Week Anything but Books
Frank: library as public space
Susen: Broadchurch
Gwen: Indigo Girls
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