Welcome to The Librarian is In, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.
Doug Reside from NYPL’s Library for the Performing Arts joins Gwen and Frank to talk about the Bard and the Great White Way. He even raps a teeny tiny bit from Hamilton.
What We're Reading Now
Slate's Culture Gabfest on bro culture and the new Richard Linklater movie, Everybody Wants Some!!
The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
The Bunker Diaryby Kevin Brooks
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Schadenfreude
- Vorfreude
- Ohrwurm (earworm!)
- Fernweh
Revisiting the poetry of LangstonHughes and MargaretAtwood
Hughes’ Collected Poems and “Let America Be America Again”
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.(It never was America to me.)
In the Night Kitchenby Maurice Sendak
Hot Topix
Our top 5 Beverly Cleary books
Hillary Clinton and why you shouldn't tell a woman to smile. Come on, people.
Guest Star
Doug Reside, the Lewis and Dorothy Cullman Curator for the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the Library for the Performing Arts
Lots of musicals and plays: Kiss Me Kate, West Side Story, Winter's Tale, Parade, The Last Five Years... check them out on Playbill.com
TheNYT article about the 1 Train sounding like "A Place for Us" (can you hear it?)
NYPL's observance of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death and Artists for LPA Share Shakespeare: “A More Personal Connection”
King Charles III on Broadway
The #Hamiltome
Word of the Week
Doug: Terpsichorean
Frank: Susurration
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