Sixteen, Going on Seventeen: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 22
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Manga madness overtakes the podcast when Frank and Gwen are joined by YA librarian Chantalle Uzan. Plus: Love for Liesel... not so much for Lionel Shriver.
Moods of manga, by DeviantArt user WhiteSakura59.
What We're Reading Now
MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant
Lionel Shriver's speech at the Brisbane Writers Conference
Nisha Susan's rebuttal in The Hindu and her zine, The Ladies Finger
Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Forever Liesel by Charmain Carr
The Other Boleyn Girlby Philippa Gregory
The Blacktop series by LJ Alonge: Justin and Janae
Guest Star
Chantalle Uzan, a young-adult librarian at Francis Martin Library in the Bronx
NYPL's Best Books for Teens 2015 (2016 coming in a few months!)
Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
Wikipedia's definition of manga and slice-of-life manga
Shelves and shelves and shelves of manga, via Flickr user JustinDoub.
Manga, comics, and graphic novels that we talked about:
- A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Oima
- The Gods Lie by Kaori Ozaki (and Haruki Murakami's books, including 1Q84)
- Lumberjanesby Noelle Stevenson and co.
- Richie Rich in the Harvey Comics universe
- Betty and Veronica (and the Archie and Jughead reboots)
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- The Chilling Adventures of Sabrinaby Roberto Aguierre-Sacasa
- Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan (and Stranger Things [TV] and The Witch [film])
- Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura
- Orange by Ichigo Takano
Anything but Books
Rose Quartz!
Chantalle: The show Steven Universe, the graphic novel you can check out from NYPL, our blog post about books for people who love the show, and the Comic Con event at Jefferson Market
Gwen: Vote411.org for voter registration resources.
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