Library Talks

BONUS: We're giving you a taste of the Library's other podcast, The Librarian Is In. Each week hosts Gwen and Frank discuss books, culture, what you should read next , and interview interesting figures from the world of books and libraries. Give it a listen, and subscribe if you like what you hear! Back to regularly scheduled programing on Tuesday.

Direct download: Ep_37_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

A hilarious, confounding, perplexing, and thoroughly engrossing conversation between theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss and actor Alan Alda. They came to the LIVE from the NYPL stage to discuss Krauss’s new book, The Greatest Story Ever Told…So Far: Why Are We Here?

Direct download: Alan_Alda_nypl_podcast_mixdown2_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

An interview with Bernstein finalist and Guardian editor-at-large Gary Younge. His book is called Another Day in the Death of America: a Chronicle of Ten Short Lives. On an average day in the U.S., seven children and teens will die from gun violence. Younge picked one such day in November 2013 and told the stories of the ten young people whose lives were lost in that 24-hour span.

Direct download: Gary_Younge_nypl_podcast_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

If you’ve ever made it through a full Seder, you know that celebrating Passover can last as long as the Exodus itself. Today, on day two of the annual holiday, the NYPL podcast has a measure of comic relief for you in the form of an all-new Haggadah called For This We Left Egypt? It's written by Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, and Adam Mansbach.

Direct download: Passover_Reconsidered_nypl_podcast_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:46am EDT

Sonia Shah's new book 'Pandemic' uses the history of cholera as a template toward understanding the life cycles of disease outbreaks and how our how our next global pandemic might arise.

Direct download: sonia_Shah_nypl_podcast_fixed_mixdown2_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:32am EDT

1