The Woman Behind the Curtain: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 24

By Gwen Glazer, Librarian
October 25, 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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Come hang out with Readers ServicOz! (See what we did there?) Lynn Lobash, manager of Readers Services, peels back the veil of mystery surrounding readers' advisory—and puts Gwen and Frank to the recommendations test.

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Any book recommendations behind that curtain?

Photo via Yellow Brick Road Free Blog.

What We're Reading Now

NYPL's annual Best Books for Teens list

Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

Mayor of Mogadishu by Andrew Harding

The Gap of Time and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

The Birds (the Hitchcock film)

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Creepy creepy birds! From Flickr user Paul Townsend.

Hogarth Press and its super-cool Shakespeare retellings

Guest Star

Lynn Lobash, manager of Readers Services!

All our stuff:

The NoveList database

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan

When Watched: Stories by Leopoldine Core

Anything but Books

Lynn: Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim and Hell or High Water

FrankNew York Classical Theater

Gwen: Loosely Exactly Nicole

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Exactly what you want an underground park to look like! Image via thelowline.org.