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 Diary by Kevin Brooks

Tinkers by Paul Harding

Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Schadenfreude
• Vorfreude
• Ohrwurm (earworm!)
• Fernweh 

Revisiting the poetry of Langston Hughes and Margaret Atwood

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 Kitchen by 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

The NYT 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”

Come to Jefferson Market's Shakespeare class this spring!

Doug reading from Richard III as part of our 30 Days of Shakespeare audio project

King Charles III on Broadway

The #Hamiltome

 

Word of the Week

Doug: Terpsichorean

Frank: Susurration 

 

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