Dame Margaret Comes to Town: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 13

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Margaret H. Willison, a.k.a. The Coolest Funniest Pop-Culture-iest Librarian Ever, joins Gwen and Frank this week for the ultimate high/low-culture episode.

What We're Reading Now

Librarian on Jeopardy!Zeroville by Steve Erickson

Chauncey Gardner from Being ThereAll about EveThe Moment of Psycho by David ThomsonAlfred Hitchcock's Psycho Before the Fall by Noah HawleyThe Fargo TV show

Doctor Fate, Vol. 1 by Paul Levitz

Guest Star

Margaret H. Willison:

• Her e-newsletter, Two Bossy Dames
• Her podcast, Appointment Television
• Her gig as fourth chair on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour
• Her 24/7 slumber party on Twitter

Clem SnideGilmore Girls

Bringing Up BabyHomicide: Life on the Street: the TV show, the book by David Simon, and Andre BraugherAlfred Hitchcock's VertigoAnimal Farm by George Orwell

A gazillion mysteries by Agatha Christie and Dorothy SayersNancy Pearl's TED Talk, which explains her  "doorways" ideaBellweather Rhapsody by Kate RacculiaFangirl by Rainbow RowellThe Westing Game by Ellen RaskinInto the Woods (movie) --> Tender Morsels (YA  novel) --> Hadestown (album)The West Wing

Keats' idea of negative capability

The Secret History by Donna TarttTo Say Nothing of the Dog and The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

 

Anything but Books

Margaret: Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, album and off-Broadway play at the New York Theatre WorkshopFrank: Gentlemen Prefer BlondesGwen: @BroodingYAHero on Twitter

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