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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 Plainview, NY

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!