One Bad Podcast: The Librarian Is In, Ep. 17

By Gwen Glazer, Librarian
July 21, 2016

Welcome to The Librarian Is In, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

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Gwen can barely contain herself this week when she and Frank are joined by Biz Ellis, one of the hosts of the One Bad Mother podcast, to talk kids and parents and books. Plus, Biz's 6-year-old daughter makes a book recommendation of her own!

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It's Biz!

What We're Reading Now

Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan
Camille Paglia's books and essays, and the Salon.com article on Trump

Instagram

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Fun with filters...

"In the Depths of the Digital Age" in The New York Review of Books by Edward Mendelson

Three's Company

A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara and the story of the cover photo by Peter Hujar

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Quite a photo.

The History of Great Thingsby Elizabeth Crane

Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

Rain Schoolby James Rumsford

Hot Topix

How to put a book on hold

NYPL's new SimplyE app

Guest Star

Elizabeth Ellis, comedian and co-host of the One Bad Mother podcast, and One Bad Mother on Facebook and Twitter

Gwen's interview on One Bad Mother

I Am a Bunnyby Ole Risom

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My name is Nicolas! I live in a hollow tree!

American Housewife by Biz's sister, Helen Ellis

DC Comics, cozy mysteries, and Lee Child's Jack Reacher series

The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais

Suspect by Robert Crais (this is the book Biz recommended about the military dog!)

The amazing work of Mo Willems:

The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak

Katy Belle's recommendation: Warriors: The Sun Trailby Erin Hunter

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These cats mean business.

Also, the Seekers series (bears) and the Survivors series (dogs) by Erin Hunter

Anything but Books

Biz: Tumble Leaf

Gwen: The Okee Dokee Brothers' Can You Canoe?

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