The Librarian Is In Podcast, Biblio File

Wallow with Me: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 155 by NYPL PodcastsDecember 12, 2019

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We are soooo emo this week.


Come stare moodily out a lonely window with us! Frank falls into a book trance after reading a French novel with a double meaning in its title, and Gwen unpacks a heartbreaker about a woman who leaves Jamaica for Brooklyn. 

lie with me

Lie with Me by Philippe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald

patsy

Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benin

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Lie With Me

Submitted by Lizzi (not verified) on December 12, 2019 - 1:01pm

I'm so glad to be listening discussion about Lie With Me. I read it earlier this year and it's a favorite of mine. You're right- it is exquisitely painful. And Frank, I've re-read the last paragraph so many times.

Thank you

Submitted by Frank Collerius (not verified) on December 19, 2019 - 8:59pm

You made me cry all over again just reading your comment. ; ) Frank

Same!

Submitted by Kati J (not verified) on December 16, 2019 - 10:15am

The emo-ness is real this winter. Happy to hear about Gwen's new gig and that she's still with NYPL! I was afraid for the podcast when you first brought it up, but it sounds like the perfect arrangement. I saved up a few episodes so I could listen to them all at once on my commute, but the show is too entertaining to put it off for long! Looking forward to the next episode, hope your emo feelings resolve themselves soon. :)

X-mas

Submitted by Anna Troy (not verified) on December 18, 2019 - 10:09am

Thanks for this year and Merry Christmas!

May you party all 2020 long!

Submitted by Gabriela (not verified) on December 28, 2019 - 2:11pm

My family and I wish that you, and everyone dear to your hearts, be healthy and happy all 365 days that follow. (I personally wish for your great pod all year long =)=)

Lie with Me

Submitted by Svendska8 (not verified) on January 1, 2020 - 10:22am

I had a hard time with the audio--the female voice is muffled, but the male voice is too loud.

bad sound

Submitted by kathy brackett (not verified) on January 13, 2020 - 6:10pm

I have finally caught up to this episode and Gale's mike is very soft. I can barely hear her. I've tried the episode on iTunes and spotify, but it is very hard to listen to

Lie with Me

Submitted by Amelia (not verified) on June 8, 2020 - 1:22pm

Hey Frank, I just finished "Lie with Me" because you referenced it on a later episode where "Wuthering Heights" is discussed (another favorite book of mine). Thank you for reading and recommending Lie with Me. I am going to do my own segment on the book for the public library that I work for. It was both beautiful and sad (beautifully sad). I cried my way through it. It's been awhile that I've read a book that elicited anywhere close to this reaction. I just listened to this episode (because I didn't want to hear any thoughts on it before reading) and I totally agree with you in that I didn't want to read anything about it after. I just wanted to be with my emotions. At one point in this podcast, you had expressed a desire that Gwen read the book to see if she had any different points to add. I realize that this is months after the fact, but I wanted to share that I think for me another dimension of the book that resonated, was the concept of choice and chance. Philipe makes a statement at the beginning of the book "In later years, I will often write about the unthinkable, the element of unpredictability that determines outcomes. And game-changing encounters, the unexpected juxtapositions that can shift the course of a life. It starts there, in the winter of my seventeenth year." -Amelia