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All Episodes

Borrowed & Returned — 125 episodes

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Title
1

Sandra Cisneros Has a Prescription For Us

2

Linda Sarsour on Building a Better World

3

Julia Alvarez on Bilingualism as a Superpower

4

Edwidge Danticat Is Invited to this Party

5

Jacqueline Woodson on Telling Stories of our Ancestors

6

Jose Antonio Vargas Redefines America

7

This Guy Sucked: D W Griffith with Kellie Carter Jackson

8

Thresholds: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on the Future That’s Still Possible

9

We are the Environment: Silent Spring’s Enduring Wisdom

10

Molly Crabapple on Making Art in a Turbulent World

11

Art Spiegelman on Resistance, Memory, and Speaking Up

12

Maus and the Power of Images

13

Book Riot: The Untold Story of Black Librarians

14

Matt de la Peña on Small Stories and the Power of Perspective

15

Meg Medina on Latine Stories and Reading as a Family

16

How The Snowy Day Changed Children’s Books

17

The Legacy of Howard Zinn's Radical History

18

Reginald Dwayne Betts on Freedom and Poetic Constraint

19

On Reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X in Prison

20

N.K. Jemisin on Truth, Education, and Speculation

21

What Parable of the Sower Taught Us About the Future

22

Introducing: Borrowed and Returned

23

Tracing the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn

24

A New Year’s Plunge (Rebroadcast)

25

Why We Still Read Together: The Joy of Book Clubs

26

Book Sanctuaries, Buttons and Bouncy Houses

27

Banned Books Week: All for a Library Card

28

Rebroadcast: Blocks and Brownstones

29

Bed-Stuy Tea: An Interview with Cookbook Author Nicole A. Taylor

30

Explore Your City This Summer!

31

Drag Story Hour

32

Say His Name: Arthur Miller

33

When the Library's a Stage

34

Rebroadcast: Secret Lives of Librarians

35

Bridging the Gap

36

Browse the Branches

37

The Challenge

38

On the Frontlines

39

An Interview with Maia Kobabe

40

Beloved Blues

41

An Interview with George M. Johnson

42

Battle of the Classics

43

An Interview with Mike Curato

44

Of Parents and School Boards

45

This Day in Esoteric Political History: United States vs One Book Called Ulysses (1933)

46

Seen and Obscene

47

All for a Library Card

48

Introducing: Borrowed and Banned

49

An Episode from Grown: Culture and Identity

50

Jay-Z at the Library

51

Pathways to Leadership

52

Meet Our (Almost) Six-Year-Old Librarian

53

The Teens are Offline

54

Seeking Asylum

55

Buscando Asilo

56

A Place of Refuge

57

What's Your Library Worth?

58

Go, Robots, Go!

59

Happily Ever After

60

La Hora Mágica

61

Dyker Singers, Dyker Lights

62

Rebroadcast: Work in Progress

63

Family Meal

64

Stories of Service

65

Rebroadcast: Weathering the Storm

66

School's Out! Time for a Pop Quiz

67

Books Unbanned

68

A Library Sounds Like This

69

World Wide Web

70

Decolonizing Dewey

71

New Libraries, Old Places

72

Goodbye to All Fines

73

Happy Birthday, BPL!

74

Building Brooklyn: We've Been Here Before

75

Building Brooklyn: Finntown

76

Building Brooklyn: Eighth Avenue

77

Building Brooklyn: Women on the Waterfront

78

Building Brooklyn: Like Coming Home

79

Building Brooklyn: From Gowanus to Canarsie

80

New Yorkers: Rank Your Vote!

81

That All May Participate

82

Good News

83

Education For All

84

Rekindling from Burnout

85

Hear Me Out: Part Two

86

Hear Me Out: Part One

87

Showing Up

88

Secret Lives of Librarians

89

Storytime Anytime

90

Missing Them

91

On Passing

92

Votes for Women

93

From Montgomery to East New York

94

Marching Onward

95

Reopening, Reimagining

96

Your Friendly Neighborhood Fridge

97

Rebroadcast: Free Brooklyn

98

Stories from the Pandemic

99

A Folklorist for the Seven Million

100

In Fifty Years

101

Get Counted

102

Social Distancing? We're Here For You!

103

Three Brooklyn Stories

104

Stroller Parking

105

Borrowed, Live!

106

Carnegie's Legacy

107

Librarians, Live!

108

Plunging into the New Year

109

Blocks and Brownstones

110

Our Garbage, Ourselves

111

Throwing It Out

112

Free Brooklyn

113

Getting Home

114

Check This Out

115

New Americans

116

A Writer Grows in Brooklyn

117

Teens Take Over

118

Work in Progress

119

For Kids' Sake

120

Weathering the Storm

121

Across the Reference Desk

122

Something to Offend Everyone

123

Oil Spills and Moldy Paper

124

Books Are Not Dead

125

Introducing 'Borrowed'