It's Not You, Book, It's Me: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 92
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Frank confesses his sometimes-complicated relationship with certain books and his bouts of book insecurity. Plus: What happens when Frank and Gwen serendipitously read the same book around the same time but don't quite remember it the same way? And an unpublished work from the early 1930s finallly gets the recognition it deserves.
What We're Reading Now
Pure Hollywood by Christine Schutt
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
Plus: Listen to a conversation about this book with Barraccon’s editor and noted Hurston scholar, Deborah G. Plant, on the NYPL podcst.
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
Gessen also talks about her work on the NYPL podcast
Other Recommendations We Mentioned
Check out photographer William Eggleston's retrospective at the Met- this is the last weekend you can catch it. And find an array of his work in books at NYPL here.
Listen to the Yanny/Laurel clip and read about this viral sensation in The Atantic.
The film The Greatest Showman with Hugh Jackman
The podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. (Vanessa, Casper, call us!)
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