The Podcast That Must Not Be Named: The Librarian Is In, Ep. 4
Welcome to The Librarian Is In, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.
We're four! And we're learning all the secrets of how the Library gets its books. Come behind the scenes with selection expert Wayne Roylance of BookOps, the special secret spy agen— er, the "technical services" unit of the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library.
We discuss the Helen Ellis/Shirley Jackson/Anita Brookner triumvirate, Frank's shocking Harry Potter confession, Martin Amis' career as a child actor (seriously!), and much more.
Image by Helena01 via DeviantArt.
What We're Reading Now
American Housewife by Helen Ellis, and one of the short stories, "Dead Doormen," available on LitHub
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The One Bad Mother podcast
Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Is it a love letter to Vita Sackville-West? Maybe!)
Vita Sackville-West was the intended recipient of “the longest love letter in the world”, as Sackville-West’s own son Nigel Nicholson described it. She was certainly its primary inspiration. Writing to her on the day of Orlando’s inception, Woolf asks: “Suppose Orlando turns out to be Vita… there’s a kind of shimmer of reality which sometimes attaches itself to my people, as the lustre on an oyster shell… shall you mind? Say yes or no."
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburgby Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, and the Tumblr that predated it
Best sticker ever. In D.C., in the book, and reprinted in Rolling Stone.
The Bunker Diaryby Kevin Brooks (and a bit of the controversy)
Euphoria by Lily King, and the audiobook via Overdrive
Some actual information about the real Margaret Mead
The Audie Awards and Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
Hot Topix
The Harry Potter books, and the audiobook versions read by Jim Dale
Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
The four new Harry Potter schools, Pottermore, and the sneak peek of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
***Note: Gwen got this piece of breaking news dreadfully wrong. It's four new SCHOOLS, not HOUSES. And they're in different countries, not at Hogwarts. Read the article; it's much clearer. She's sorry. Blame Frank.***
Book Riot's The Podcast (episode #141 is the one in which they discuss Pottermore)
Making a Murderer and our list of books on the process of journalism
The Brown Bookshelf's 28 Days Later project
And the movie... with zombies!
Jefferson Market's economics and math patterns courses
Roomby Emma Donoghue
Guest Star
BookOps! (and here's a crazy video of BookOps from the air...)
The American Library Association's "Notable Books" list
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Turning Our Pages
(Something we learned, something that makes us laugh, or something that inspires us...)
The entire archive of The New Yorker, 1925-present, is available online via NYPL! (WE SHOULD HAVE SAID THIS DURING THE SHOW!)
All online! Free! Seriously! Image via Flickr.
Woolcott Gibbs, Innocent Voyage, A High Wind in Jamaica, and Martin Amis -- we will link to Wayne's blog post when it exists!
#1000BlackGirlBooks on Twitter and in the media
Kelly's list of middle-grade books with African-American girl protagonists
Thanks for listening, and find us online @NYPLRecommends, the Bibliofile blog, and nypl.org. Or email us at recommendations@nypl.org!