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Scenic nature parks home to unnatural occurrences. A cozy public library where the doors sometimes vanish. Residents that disappear for a bit and come back…different. In a small, (too) quiet town in upstate New York, a pair of friends juggle dodging horrors beyond imagination while navigating the all too tangible terror of adulthood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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On the latest episode of From City to the World, City College of New York President Vincent Boudreau hosts alumna Akasha Solis (2016, 2022), CCNY Outdoors Project co-leader and special projects manager, and Ella Hartley, founder of Wilderness First Aid…
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There are one million new books published each year. With so many books and so little time, where do you begin to find your next must-read? There’s the New York Times Bestseller list, the Goodreads app, the Cape Library’s Staff picks shelf and now Martin’s Must-Reads.Every Wednesday at 6:42 and 8:42 a.m., and Sunday at 8:18 a.m., Betty Martin recommends a must read based on her own personal biases for historical fiction, quirky characters and overall well-turned phrases. Her list includes WW ...
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The New York Public Library’s podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.
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Social Justice & Activism - The Creative Process - Activists, Environmental, Indigenous Groups, Artists and Writers Talk Diversity, Equity and inclusion
Creative Process Original Series
Social Justice & Activism episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to activists, environmental organizations, indigenous groups, artists, writers & others who have devoted their life to making a difference. Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders & public figures share real experience ...
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Poetry: The Creative Process: Poets discuss Poems & Creativity
Writing: Creative Process Original Series
Poetry episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. Listen to poets reading their poetry & discuss their lives, work & creative process. Includes environmental poetry, humanities & activism. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conv ...
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Philosophy, Ideas, Critical Thinking, Ethics & Morality: The Creative Process: Philosophers, Writers, Educators, Creative Thinkers, Spiritual Leaders, Environmentalists & Bioethicists
Philosophers, Writers, Educators, Creative Thinkers, Spiritual Leaders, Environmentalists & Bioethicists · Creative Process Original Series
Philosophy episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to philosophers, writers, educators, spiritual leaders, environmentalists, bioethicists, artists & creative thinkers in other. disciplines To listen to ALL arts & education episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative ...
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Feminism, Women’s Stories: The Creative Process: Empowering Stories, Inspiring Women, Gender Equality, Women's Rights & Empowerment
Empowering Stories, Inspiring Women: Creative Process Original Series
Feminism & Women’s Issues episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. Listen to Empowering Stories from Inspiring Women, discussing their lives, work & creative process. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with write ...
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Art · The Creative Process: Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art, Life & Creativity
Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art & Creativity · Creative Process Original Series
Art episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to artists, curators, museum directors about their work & how they made their creative careers. To listen to arts episodes across a variety of disciplines, follow our main podcast: “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”. You’ll find us on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations wit ...
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Deep beneath the stacks of the New York Public Library, Brian & Eric stumble through strange, spooky, and macabre while trying not to get cursed. Bigfoot? Obviously real. UFOs? The government is hiding them. The Dogman? Definitely not just a bear. Killer Robots? Coming for us all! Join two idiots as they explore these topics and more while making each other laugh.
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Have you ever been told you’re just not right for the part? Maybe, you’ve been on a hundred auditions and heard back from zero? Or are you merely a terrible actor searching for mediocre advice? All are welcome. Join Andrew and Catherine as they break down the day-to-day life of an early-career actor, discuss constant rejection, and provide tools that will guide you through this artistic mess. We’re new at this too, so let’s learn together.
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OUR STREETS, OUR STORIES is a project of the Brooklyn Public Library's Department of Outreach Services that seeks to explore the Brooklyn that is and was, from the words of the community that lives here. Our hope is to create neighborhood-specific history archives based around interviews with Brooklyn residents. We seek to not only witness the change taking place all around us, but also to record and preserve the history of our neighborhoods before that history is forgotten. *Nominee, 2016 & ...
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The Library of Arabic Literature is a remarkable undertaking. It is publishing, in Arabic and English dual-language volumes, key works of classical and pre-modern Arabic literature from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of the modern period. Several of these works have not been translated before, while others have not received such careful editing and translation until now, when the editors and translators are consulting original manuscripts. The series launched its first title in December 201 ...
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Synchronicity machines. Difference engines melded with the iChing. Geomancy: the art of making stone float with sound. The hacker collective 'Anonymous'. Secret societies … This is the world of ARMAND PTOLEMY, a new action-adventure hero. Facing an enemy armed with the Golden Aleph -- a mystical device that allows its wielder to see holographically into every point in time and space, Ptolemy must use every trick of his Oxford-educated mind and circus-trained body to succeed. But how do you f ...
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Welcome to my library of interviews... Librarians, bestselling authors and our wartime generation sharing their love of books, reading and some extraordinary stories . #Hidden History #Forgotten women #Bibliotherapy #Libraries INTRODUCTION Welcome to From the Library With Love. A podcast for anyone whose life has been changed by reading. I’m Kate Thompson. Wonderful, transformative things happen when you set foot in a library. In 2019 I uncovered the true story of a forgotten Underground lib ...
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The First Artist-Led Global Summit & The Future of Museums - NICOLA LEES, Director, Aspen Art Museum
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46:04“It's a complicated time to think about how we can slow down, be still, and bring a brilliant group of people together to do something that feels purposeful and can be productive. It's a moment where things are moving so fast. When I brought up the idea of a hinge generation, I think it's impossible to know how we will look back and reflect on this…
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The First Artist-Led Global Summit & The Future of Museums - NICOLA LEES, Director, Aspen Art Museum
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The First Artist-Led Global Summit & The Future of Museums - NICOLA LEES, Director, Aspen Art Museum
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46:04“It's a complicated time to think about how we can slow down, be still, and bring a brilliant group of people together to do something that feels purposeful and can be productive. It's a moment where things are moving so fast. When I brought up the idea of a hinge generation, I think it's impossible to know how we will look back and reflect on this…
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Season 3 Episode 1: Making the Best of It
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12:32“Empty… empty… empty. No one’s home.” CAST: Rhys Tirado - Vincent Ford Blue - Locke Isaiah Rothstein - Viktor WRITING STAFF: Rhys Tirado EDITOR: Rhys Tirado MUSIC: Dana Creasman Sound effects via Epidemic Sound. TRANSCRIPT Follow Overbrook on Twitter: @OverbrookPod Social media, Patreon, and Fundrazr: https://linktr.ee/brainrotpresents Hosted on Ac…
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Turn The Page – Episode 359F – Tasha Coryell
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29:34When Lexie’s fiancé runs off with her so-called best friend on her birthday, her carefully crafted fairy-tale life shatters. Having survived horrors in her past, she was determined to finally get her happily-ever-after—and she’s not giving up yet. Tasha Coryell chats MATCHMAKING FOR PSYCHOPATHS.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 359E – Katie Fricas
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23:07Katie Fricas chats about CHECKED OUT, a graphic novel valentine to libraries and New York, and the story of an artist working to make her dreams come true (if she can figure out what those dreams are, exactly).By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 359D – Kala Harris
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18:12Meghan sat down with author Kalla Harris to discuss her YA vampire apocalypse dark fantasy book, THE GROUND THAT DEVOURS US, which follows Ruby and her twin sister Ripley as they navigate a vampire apocalypse.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 359C – Virginia Trench
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18:37Virginia Trench chats about her debut thriller OUR SECRETS WERE SAFE, a razor-sharp, twist-loaded thriller that proves the past is never truly buried—and some secrets refuse to stay silentBy Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 359B – Susan Wiggs
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26:21Susan Wiggs discusses WAYWARD GIRLS, in which six girls are condemned to forced labor in the laundry of a Catholic reform school during the turbulent Vietnam era in the All-American city of Buffalo, New York.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 359A – Lenora Woods
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20:05Kaye and Jenn chat writing, gaming, and love with Lenora Woods, author of the delightful ROLL FOR ROMANCE, in which two fledgling tabletop gamers find themselves falling for each other—both in and out of their weekly D&D sessions.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future w/ MONICA FERIA-TINTA - Highlights
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15:10“I guess the book was about giving hope because I realized how much we could do together. I believe that ordinary people are the ones bringing changes here. I believe that the communities gathering together – for example, I am seeing that in this country around the protection of rivers – are the ones that will mark the change. It's not going to com…
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Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future w/ MONICA FERIA-TINTA - Highlights
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Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future w/ MONICA FERIA-TINTA - Highlights
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Bobby Hankinson: Kweendom: A Night of Queer Stand-Up
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1:15:02In this episode of Library Talks, New York’s funniest LGBTQ performers take the stage for a one-night-only celebration of queer comedy, community, and joy. Hosted by Bobby Hankinson, Kweendom is an all-LGBTQ comedy show featuring some of the city’s sharpest queer comedians and storytellers. Born from Hankinson’s frustration with lineups lacking aut…
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“Santa Monica, 1923. The plane rattled, as if with fever. The engine spit once, and then, like a ruptured heart, my Curtiss OX-5 engine burst, spewing hot oil from both sides of its chest."By Betty Martin
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Disspelling the Myths & Correcting the Record About Haitian Migrants w/ GABRIELLE APOLLON & POOJA BHATIA
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The Theory of Water with LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON
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43:11“So I think that part of colonialism for Indigenous peoples has been this idea that Indigenous peoples aren't thinking peoples and that we don't have thought on a kind of systemic level. One of the things that I was interested in doing is intervening in that because I think Indigenous people have a lot of beautiful, very intellectual, theoretical c…
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The Theory of Water with LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON
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Turn The Page – Episode 358F – Annie Mare
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16:46COSMIC LOVE AT THE MULTIVERSE HAIR SALON: it’s as much fun to read the book as it is to say the title! Author Annie Mare sat down with us to chat about this lovely romance about two women who fall in love while texting one another from five months apart.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 358E – Patricia Grayhall
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18:31Patricia Grayhall talks about writing A PLACE FOR US, her debut novel and a thrilling tale of two women who find each other irresistible but struggle for a second chance for love, redemption, and sanctuary when the world is against them.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 358D – M.K. England
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18:18M.K. England discusses ROLL FOR ROMANCE, a second-chance queer romance about two teens whose in-world D&D characters fall in love, but in IRL things are more complicated.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 358C – Kelsey James
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20:47A young woman searching for her missing sister in 1930s California is drawn into a dark and dangerous cult. Kelsey James returns to talk about her third book, THE COLONY OF LOST SOULS– another historical thriller that will consume you!By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 358B – Rita Lussier
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15:47Rita Lussier drops by to chat about her memoir AND NOW, BACK TO ME, which explores adjusting to change and reclaiming independence when the last child leaves the house.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 358A – Josh Rountree
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25:27Josh Rountree returns to the show to discuss THE UNKILLABLE FRANK LIGHTNING, which vividly reimagines Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN in the Wild West.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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John B. King, Jr. with Lisette Nieves: Teacher by Teacher
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42:57Former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr talks to Lisette Nieves about his latest book, Teacher by Teacher.
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On Writing, America's Forever Wars & Challenging Power with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN
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1:02:34“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an other for me in the United States were obviously very fundamental to shaping who I am as a person and as a writer. It was very difficult to undergo, bu…
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On Writing, America's Forever Wars & Challenging Power with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN
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“Louise. August 1975. The bed is empty. Louise, the counselor— twenty-three, short-limbed, rasp-voiced, jolly—stands barefoot on the warm rough planks of the cabin."By Betty Martin
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Writing, Imagination & Memory w/ Author & Filmmaker JAY PARINI
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30:47“Poetry is the prince of the literary arts to me. It's at the very top because it's language refined to its apex of memorability. I am interested in poetry as memorability and poetry as something you live by. These are the words you live by. These words stay in your brain and guide your life. That's what I am interested in. My memoir slash autofict…
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On Robert Frost, Borges, Gore Vidal & The Writing Life with Poet & Author JAY PARINI
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30:47“Poetry is the prince of the literary arts to me. It's at the very top because it's language refined to its apex of memorability. I am interested in poetry as memorability and poetry as something you live by. These are the words you live by. These words stay in your brain and guide your life. That's what I am interested in. My memoir slash autofict…
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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072
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44:11In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi about their dazzling and challenging book, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 to 2072. They imagine a world haunted by genocide, ecocide, disease, fascism, and viral capitalism, but rather than…
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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072
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44:11In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi about their dazzling and challenging book, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 to 2072. They imagine a world haunted by genocide, ecocide, disease, fascism, and viral capitalism, but rather than…
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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072
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Turn The Page – Episode 357F – L.J. Andrews
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19:37Author LJ Andrews talks BROKEN BONES AND SOULS, a highly addicting character driven book set against a Norse Mythology fantasy world where Lyra Bein and Roark Ashwood find themselves at odds with each other and their own fates as they draw reluctantly closer.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 357E – Ben Mattlin
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24:42Ben Mattlin discusses UNBOUND: NOTES FROM A RELUCTANT DISABILITY ADVOCATE, in which he chronicles his life with spinal muscular atrophy and charts his growth as a reluctant disability activist and public intellectual.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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