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You Can't Always Get What You Want

You Can't Always Get What You Want

FromThe Librarian Is In


You Can't Always Get What You Want

FromThe Librarian Is In

ratings:
Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Jul 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Gwen is so moved by one of the three poems she brings to the studio that she can't even read it (she tried!). And Frank is transported by a novel about a marriage in Nigeria he can't NOT talk about it.  Plus: the perils of social media and why Frank feels he is pretty much free of FOMO.  Frank's Book Recommendation  Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo You can also listen to the author discuss this book on the NYPL podcasts here. Gwen's Poetry Recommendations  “Airplanes” by Maggie Smith, in the Spring/Summer issue of Ninth Letter  “Ghazal: America the Beautiful” by Alicia Ostriker, and the Dear Poet video series of her reading her own work "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver   
Released:
Jul 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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