Hello, listeners!
On the very first episode of NYPL's brand-new podcast, Frank and Gwen talk about book shame, their reading origin stories, the glory of Jefferson Market, and why some young people are saying "swell" without irony.
Stuff we mentioned on the show...
What We're Reading Now
Farthing by Jo Walton
Fatherland by Robert Harris
The Man in the High Castle: book by Philip K. Dick and TV show on Amazon
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleve
Days of Awe by Lauren Fox
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown, plus our blog post about The Essential Board Book Library
Children's book author Enid Blyton, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, and Pippi Longstocking (by Astrid Lindgren, of course!)
Hot Topix-with-an-X
"Best books of the year" lists from the New York Times, the Atlantic, Book Riot, NYPL, a million other places...
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
The movie Spotlight and A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
Guest Stars
Frank's childhood library in Long Island
Gwen's childhood library in Pennsylvania
NYPL's Staff Picks, encouraging the serendipity of browsing
Turning Our Pages
NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast
City of Night by John Rechy
Edmund White's NYT article about young people's obsession with New York City in the 1970s
St. Mark's Is Dead by Ada Calhoun
Programs at the beautiful Jefferson Market Library:
Aziz Ansari's book, Modern Romance, and his Netflix show, Master of None
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge and NYPL's suggestions for it
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Thanks for listening, and find us online @NYPLRecommends, the Bibliofile blog, and nypl.org. Or email us at recommendations@nypl.org!