Hot Garbage, Summer in the City: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 19
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Humidity can't exist in outer space! Beat the heat by blasting off into orbit with Frank and Gwen's brand-new segment. Plus: Do audiobooks "count" as reading?
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What We're Reading Now
A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies by Lindsay Ribar
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel, edited by Lisa Rodensky
A fainting couch, as painted by Manet. Please send one of these c/o NYPL.
Hot Topix
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and our blog post, 16 Harry Potter Readalikes... Because The Cursed Child Isn't Enough
New York Magazine story that posits audiobooks aren't "cheating"
Yes, Please! by Amy Poehler -- print and audio
The Harry Potter audiobooks narrated by Jim Dale
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer -- print and audio
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan
An explanation of Socrates' idea that writing down ideas diminishes them
Lord of the Flies: book vs movie
Guest Star Book Recommendations!
The Firefly TV series
- The Ancillary Justiceseries by Ann Leckie
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
- The Fallen Empire series by Lindsey Buroker
- Admiral by Sean Danker
- Company Town by Madeline Ashby
- Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Want to ask for your own book recommendation? Email us at NYPLRecommends@nypl.org or leave us a comment on iTunes!
Anything but Books
Frank: Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino
Gwen: The Overdue podcast, especially the episodes on The Phantom Tollbooth and The Handmaid's Tale
The Appointment Television podcast
A Wrinkle in Time, and the other books that Chelsea Clinton mentioned at the DNC
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