The Woman Behind the Curtain: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 24
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.
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)
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:
- Live recommendations on NYPL's Facebook page
- @NYPLRecommends on Twitter
- "The Form" (a.k.a. What Should I Read Next?)
- Staff Picks
- Blog posts from Readers Services
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
- Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
- Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
When Watched: Stories by Leopoldine Core
- The Chinz Age by Ed Hamilton
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Anything but Books
Lynn: Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim and Hell or High Water
Frank: New 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.