Welcome to The Librarian Is In, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

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Your hosts wax rhapsodic about two of their mainstay favorite authors. Plus: Gwen takes "cozy intellectual" suggestions from a listener's email and Frank discovers a YouTube celebrity crush. 

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (and many more of Brookner's books in our catalog)

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (and Carry On, the first in the series; Fangirl; Eleanor & Park; and many more of Rowell's books in our catalog)

More topics we discussed today:

• Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• Liza Koshy on YouTube
• The Internet Is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen

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Tell us what everybody's talking about in your world of books and libraries! Suggest Hot Topix(TM)! Send an email or voice memo to podcasts[at]nypl.org.

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