Brooklyn Public Library

Borrowed & Returned is a arts podcast hosted by Brooklyn Public Library. It has 119 episodes, with the latest published February 2026.

Brooklyn Public Library is full of stories. Borrowed brings the best of them to you.Current podcast series:Launching July 8, 2025, Borrowed & Returned is a new podcast series that examines what our reading public borrowed in the past, and what we’re all reading now. In conversations with library workers, authors and readers across the country, we’ll return to the books that changed us, and changed America, too. Previous podcast series: Borrowed and Banned is our limited series about America's ideological war with its bookshelves. From September to December 2023, we released ten episodes featuring the stories of students on the frontlines, librarians and teachers whose livelihoods are endangered when they speak up, and writers whose books have become political battleground.  Borrowed, BPL's flagship podcast, is a narrative series about superhero libr

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