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Aug 16, 2018 42 min

Guess What SHOULDN'T Replace Libraries?

from The Librarian Is In Hosted by The New York Public Library

Answer: anything! Frank and Gwen discuss why for-profit businesses cannot and should not take libraries' place in society. Plus, recommendations for two small books that contain very big worlds. Book Recommendations Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Oleg Kagan's opinion piece about how libraries are not companies, and more information about Forbes deleting the original op-ed. The best way to support this podcast is with a gift to The New York Public Library. Click here to donate.

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