We're obsessed with libraries loaning unconventional items: seeds, toys, tools, clothes, games, museum passes... and sculptures. Local artist Wendy Richmond joins Gwen and Frank to talk about her work and her new installation, which encouraged patrons to take home her incredible sculptures of her own hands.
Frank and Gwen will be talking to Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People, at Frank's own Jefferson Market Library! Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 6:30 p.m. -- click here for all the details.
Whether you're cooking turkey for 20 or opting out of Thanksgiving entirely, books about food are always in season. Frank and Gwen talk about their favorite cookbooks and chef memoirs with NYPL's resident foodie, Jeanne Hodesh, and offer some family recipes of their very own.
What makes a good story time? Anthony Murisco, youth librarian extraordinaire, joins Frank and Gwen to talk all things kids and books. Plus: everyone's favorite lazy cartoon cat, a true stumper of a guessing game, and a flurry of pop-culture recommendations.
In This Episode:
Anthony's library: The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
NLS: The National Library Service for the blind and physically handicapped
A book Anthony likes for storytime: Jump by David McPhail
NYPL's Best Books for Kids and Teens and Anthony's 2017 list with Bookshare links
"Book That Talk and Books You Touch": Jill Rothstein's TLII episode about technology for print-disabled patrons
Kris Jenner... and All Things Kardashian (and her cookbook)
Fake Blood by Whitney Gardner
Jabberwalking by Juan Felipe Herrera
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguierre-Sacasa (and RIVERDALE!)
Garfield: The Complete Works, 1978-1979 (coming soon to the Library!)
A library podcast about a book about libraries? Sign us up! Frank goes meta this week with an in-depth review of Susan Orlean's new page-turner, and and Gwen sees an author of children's classics in a new light.
Frank & Gwen's Recommendations
The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and several other books by Susan Orlean
Check out the Library Talks podcast (after Sunday, Nov. 11) to hear an interview with Orlean!
The works of Canadian children's author Robert Munsch:
And “The Story Behind ‘Love You Forever’ Is Probably Not What You Thought”
It's almost Election Day. Do you know where your voting rights are? Christopher Famighetti, professor at Jefferson Market University, joins Frank and Gwen for an in-depth convo about voting — and what libraries have to do with it. Plus: a different take on Tolstoy and the surreal films of Luis Buñuel.