Halloween Comes Early: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 23
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As fall sets in and Halloween approaches, things get a little creeeeeeepy in the studio as Frank and Gwen bravely welcome horror expert and YA librarian Brian Stokes.;
This is NOT us. Image via Demco.com.
(Attack of the Zombie Librarians is apparently a real event from the Altoona Public Library! So awesome.)
What We're Reading Now
The Smaller Evil by Stephanie Kuehn
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson's Grandson
Steven Millhauser: Martin Dressler and The Knife Thrower
The Lowline underground park
Exactly what you want an underground park to look like! Image via thelowline.org.
The Magic Toyshopby Angela Carter
Beastby Brie Spangler
Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
Guest Star
Brian Stokes, YA librarian at Jefferson Market!
Ghosts in the Library? Jenny Baum’s ghost stories blog post and Meredith Mann’s ghost stories from the Rare Books collection
Amanda Panich: Never Missing, Never Found and Damage Done
Bret Easton Ellis: Glamorama and American Psycho
World War Z by Max Brooks
Blindnessby Jose Saramago
Feedby Mira Grant
Martyrs (film)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Brian's recommendations:
- Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
- Feed by M.T. Anderson
- Little Black Dresses, Little White Lies by Laura Stampler
Books you should read on the train if you want men to talk to you:
- My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
- Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
Anything but Books
Brian: Friday the 13th, Part 5
Gwen: Episode 200 of the Overdue podcast, about Infinite Jestby David Foster Wallace
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