Turkeys Strike Back: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 25
Welcome to The Librarian Is In, The New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.
Subscribe on iTunes | Get it on Google Play
Gwen and Frank are joined by Sarah Ball from NYPL's Correctional Services unit to talk about library services for people in jail or prison. Plus: what we're reading, books we're thankful for, and a whole lot of Frank's singing.
Turkeys strike back, ca. 1908.(Image from the Art and Picture Collection in NYPL's Digital Collections.)
Guest Star
Sarah Ball, managing librarian for Correctional Services at NYPL
The Daddy & Me program at Rikers Island
NYPL's Early Literacy practices
A book cart that Correctional Services uses. It's pink!
Donate books to Correctional Services! Check out the donation guidelines and the Amazon Wish List.
Sarah's book recommendations:
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
What We're Reading Now & Books We're Thankful for
They May Not Mean to, but They Do by Cathleen Schine (and the Philip Larkin poem in the title)
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Carolyn Parkhurst: Harmony, Lost and Found, The Dogs of Babel
The Unseen Worldby Liz Moore
Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revoltby Sarah Jaffe
Anything but Books
Sarah: Live without a smartphone and Honeytrap
Frank: Libraries!
Here is a soothing image of a library, which just so happens to be Jefferson Market.
(Image via The Culture Trip.)
Gwen: Wall Street Journal: “How to Have Thanksgiving Dinner Without a Family Blowup” by Elizabeth Bernstein (“Your feelings don’t have to dictate your actions”) and the new Gilmore Girls episodes on Netflix
---
Thanks for listening! Have you rated us on iTunes yet? Would you consider doing it now?
Find us online @NYPLRecommends, the Bibliofile blog, and nypl.org. Or email us at recommendations@nypl.org!