Take Me Back to Manhattan: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 14
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Frank and Gwen keep it local this week, from a fashion show at Jefferson Market and Open Book Night with Mid-Manhattan's Elizabeth Waters to a great read about the city's Chintz Age and a karaoke trip around Broadway.
Fashionistas and designers at Jefferson Market.
What We're Reading Now
The 12-Hour Fashion Show:
- Photos on JM's Instagram
- That fantastic video of the all the designers and their models, with Frank cheering in the background
- Materials for the Arts
- Project Runway
- Just a few of the projects funded through The New York Public Library's Innovation Project, which is made possible by a generous grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation.
The Chintz Age by Ed Hamilton
The Chelsea Hotel in 1936. Image ID: 482725
The Nestby Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
(And there IS a scary children's book called The Nest! Written by Kenneth Oppel.)
Silence Is Goldfishby Anabel Pitcher
The Stanford rape case, the letter from the survivor, and the letter from the perpetrator's fatherThe Dinner by Herman KochLucky The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Book Riot’s Tony Awards reading list
James Corden's pre-Tony's Carpool Karaoke with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Jane Krakowski
One day moooooore! Image via CBS.
Into the Woods movie
Guest Star
Elizabeth Waters from Mid-Manhattan Library!
Open Book Night:
- Books recommended for the "natural world" theme
- The next themes: escapism, summer in the city, and world literature
Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles and House of Niccolòseries
Farthing by Jo Walton
Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Frank & Gwen's First Annual Reading Challenge, coming soon to a podcast near you!
- Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing" by Lee Server
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Anything but Books
Elizabeth: Penny DreadfulFrank: American Horror StoryGwen: The Another Round podcast episode with poet Jenny Zhang (and the one with Marley Dias)
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