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A Podcast from Syosset Public Library on Long Island, New York.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Turn The Page – Episode 366F – Toril Orlesky
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14:50Toril Orlesky discusses HOTBLOOD! VOL. 1: THE LAND OF PROMISE, its evolution from web comic to the printed page, worldbuilding, genre, and color.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 366E – Madeline Martin
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24:06Jenn chats with Madeline Martin about researching and writing her newest novel, THE SECRET BOOK SOCIETY, about a forbidden book club for women set in Victorian London.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 366D – Anna Fitzgerald Healy
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23:27Anna Fitzgerald Healy teases us with murder and etiquette as seen through the eyes of Billie, a young woman with an obsession with a dead woman and the high society men who might have killed her.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 366C – Veronica Agarwal & Lee Durfey-Lavoie
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38:01Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie, the dynamic duo behind middle-grade graphic novels like JUST ROLL WITH IT and SINK OR SWIM, drop by to chat about making comics about mental health for children, as well as their upcoming appearance at Sy-Con 2025!By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 366B – Dr. Asa Simon Mittman
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53:35Syosset High School alumnus Dr. Asa Mittman stops by the show to talk about how his alma mater shaped his career as a medieval art historian and his recent book, CARTOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: ANTI-SEMITIC MAPPING IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 366A – Daniel Braum
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24:42Daniel Braum returns to the show to discuss his recent collections of beautiful and strange stories, CREATURES OF LIMINAL SPACE and PHANTOM CONSTELLATIONS.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Joshua Miele with Andrew Leland: Connecting Dots: A Blind Life
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1:05:31In this episode of Library Talks, Research scientist Joshua Miele joins Library Talks to discuss his memoir Connecting Dots: A Blind Life. He is joined by Andrew Leland, author of the memoir The Country of the Blind. Throughout his life, Miele has found increasingly inventive ways to succeed in a world built for the sighted, and to help others to d…
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A stranger, Savannah, appears at Joy and Stan’s door with a bloody forehead seeking shelter from an abusive boyfriend. They take her in and in exchange, Savannah cooks and cleans for them until a connection between her and the Delaney family is discovered. Then she disappears and foul play is suspected.…
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Turn The Page – Episode 365F – Auralee Wallace
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21:17With just the right amount of magic and high stakes, Auralee Wallace’s LATE NIGHT WITCHES is a fun story about a mother of three, trying to manage her family and her much younger sister – while being chosen witch in a prophecy about a big bad vampire that needs to be killed.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 365E – Sonita Alizada
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13:39Afghan rap artist and activist Sonita Alizada shares SONITA: MY FIGHT AGAINST TYRANNT AND MY ESCAPE TO FREEDOM, a riveting and hopeful memoir and love letter to those who dream of better worlds.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 365D – Edward Hamlin
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27:31Edward Hamlin’s SONATA IN WAX is a beautiful and touching work of historical fiction wrapped up in a musical mystery. Hamlin chats with Jenn about his music career and his debut novel.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 365C – Anna Kang & Chris Weyant
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25:06Meghan sat down with award-winning author/illustrator duo Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant to discuss their brand-new picture book, SO-HEE AND LOWY, a wonderful celebration of nature, community, and friendship.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 365B – Balazs Lorinczi
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31:36Friend-of-the-show Balazs Lorinczi returns to discuss A BITE OF PEPPER, a paranormal coming-of-age young adult graphic novel romance with a gorgeous color palette and dreamy vibes.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 365A – Khadijah VanBrakle
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21:41Khadijah VanBrakle stops by to chat about MY PERFECT FAMILY, her sophomore young adult novel, a poignant intergenerational narrative that gives voice to Black Muslim women, and a thoughtful exploration of the intersection between gender and religion.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Eloghosa Osunde with Jake Morrissey: Necessary Fiction
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59:29In this episode of Library Talks, award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist Eloghosa Osunde joins the podcast for a conversation about their new novel Necessary Fiction with the editor of Necessary Fiction Jake Morrissey. Necessary Fiction takes place across Lagos, one of Africa's largest urban areas and one of the world's most dynamic citi…
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Salman Rushdie’s newest novel Quichotte or in Spanish, Quixote is two stories, one of the author Sam DuChamp or Brother and the other of Ismail Smile, the main character in Brother’s novel.By Betty Martin
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Turn The Page – Episode 364F – Kelsey Cox
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13:40A murder at a posh Texas sweet sixteen? Yes, please. Kelsey Cox chats PARTY OF LIARS.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 364E – Alex Krokus
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20:21Alex Krokus chats about TALKING TO MY FATHER’S GHOST: AN ALMOST TRUE STORY, a heartfelt and humorous story of losing a parent and getting to know him better after his passing.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 364D – Juliet Blackwell
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24:51Abandoned hotels, local legends, ghosts and more – ASYLUM HOTEL is a good twisty story about Aubrey Spencer, a young woman haunted by her grief who finds solace in photographing abandoned places. She finds a twin flame in Demetri, a Youtuber with a common interest, when they both show up at the same place – only for their chance meeting to launch i…
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Turn The Page – Episode 364C – Anna Barrington
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18:50Jenn interviewed Anna Barrington about THE SPECTACLE, a riveting social thriller about a powerful art dealer who presents a convincing portrait of international success and pulls an idealistic young gallery assistant into his web of lies.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 364B – Thomas Cullen
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16:21Federal judge and debut novelist Thomas Cullen stops by to discuss CHARLIE-MAN, an homage to classic coming-of-age literature steeped in early 90s nostalgia.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 364A – Carl Antonowicz
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31:58Carl Antonowicz-- comics creator, musician, and good bud to Jenn-- stops by to chat about his graphic novel THE ARDENT, a bleak but deeply funny medieval fantasy about a young monk tasked by the head of his order to move the jewel-encrusted skeleton of one of their martyrs to safety.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Art Without Borders - RAJIV MENON'S Vision for South Asian Art
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46:31“I want people to understand South Asian art as broader than a single gallery or a single artist, but as a larger cultural movement. I want people to encounter art in all parts of their lives, and I’m constantly thinking about new ways to achieve that. I was very aware, as someone launching a South Asia-focused gallery, that this was the cultural d…
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Raquel Willis with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan: The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
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54:55In this episode of Library Talks, writer, activist, and speaker Raquel Willis joins Library Talks to discuss her memoir The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation. She’s joined by fellow writer Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. In The Risk It Takes to Bloom, Raquel Willis recounts with passion and candor her experiences straddling the Obama and Trump…
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks is a novel based on the fact of an ancient copy of the Haggadah, a Jewish text that lays out the order of the Passover Seder. This is an extremely precious, illuminated manuscript originally from medieval Spain.By Betty Martin
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Author JM Shaw talks about her inspiration and journey while writing the CALLUM WALKER series, and how the fourth book FORSAKEN SOULS will take Callum and Jax to greet the Southern Elves across the veil who are prepared for a reckoning.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 363F – Mallory Marlowe
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21:46Last year Mallory Marlowe stopped by to share LOVE & OTHER CONSPIRACIES. This year she’s back to discuss LOVE AT FIRST SIGHTING, another paranormally-tinged rom-com with killer banter and sizzling romantic tension.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 363E – Rob Renzetti
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22:17Travel back to the world of Grabbaugh one more time with Zenith Maelstrom as he finds a way to rescue his sister Apogee and their friend Kevin from monsters, wraiths, and theoretical physics! Renzetti, known for his work in animation, knocks it out of the park with the finale to his first ever middle grade novel series.…
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Turn The Page – Episode 363D – Jimmy Juliano
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26:22Jimmy Juliano treats us to an atmospheric horror novel set during the time period of Y2K and free AOL hours, wherein a young woman meets a teenage girl with a haunting past that connects technology to terror.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 363C – Daphne Fama
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27:22Jessikah chatted with author Daphne Fama about HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN – part gothic horror, part historical horror, and part folk horror set against the Marcos regime in the 1980’s Philippines. Make sure this one is on your TBR list.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 363B – Katie Collom
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23:32Katie Collom discusses PETER MILES HAS TO DIE, a blood-soaked tale of revenge set in early 1990s Texas about a group of women who take justice into their own hands when a friend is murdered.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Turn The Page – Episode 363A – Chuck Tingle Returns!
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34:50Chuck Tingle is back with another banger! LUCKY DAY follows Vera, a professor of statistics who no longer finds meaning in anything after surviving a global catastrophe known as the Low Probability Event, who must team up with a problematic government agent to figure out what happened.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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Malcolm D. Lee and Jayne Allen with Bevy Smith: The Best Man: Unfinished Business
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1:01:16In this episode of Library Talks, Writer and director Malcolm D. Lee Joins Library Talks to discuss his debut novel The Best Man: Unfinished Business. He’s joined by his coauthor Jayne Allen in a discussion moderated by radio and television host Bevy Smith. The beloved characters from Malcom D Lee’s The Best Man movies and hit television series reu…
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Creative Ireland: How Ireland Is Harnessing Creativity as National Strategy with SHEILA DEEGAN
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51:26Today, we talk about creativity—not as a luxury, but as a national strategy. Sheila Deegan is one of Ireland’s leading cultural architects. Over three decades, she’s shaped the artistic life of Limerick and helped reimagine the role of creativity in civic life. She now serves in the Creative Ireland Programme, a bold cross-government initiative tha…
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If you’re a parent who has had similar work/family balancing issues, then you must read It. Goes. So. Fast. by NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.By Betty Martin
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From 'Bee: Wild' to the 'Kiss the Ground' Regenerative Agriculture Documentary Trilogy - Highlights
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15:03"For the last two decades, I've made over 20 films about the environment, starting with oil and carbon emissions. Those films, Kiss the Ground and now Common Ground, talk about how we can stabilize the climate, reverse climate change, grow nutrient-dense food, and help farmers make a profit through biodiversity and regenerative practices and princi…
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“We’ve had this conversation before.” CAST: Rhys Tirado - Vincent Jesse Hall - Red Vic Collins - The Bones Beneath Chris Quinby - Wynn Ford Blue - Locke Danie Cunningham - Danie (stage crew member) WRITING STAFF: Rhys Tirado EDITOR: Rhys Tirado MUSIC: Dana Creasman Sound effects via Epidemic Sound. TRANSCRIPT Follow Overbrook on Twitter: @Overbrook…
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Turn The Page – Episode 362E – Adam Allsuch Boardman
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24:21Writer and illustrator Adam Allsuch Boardman drops by to talk about his work, including THE UNEXPLAINED UFOS and THE UNEXPLAINED GHOSTS, influences including the X-Files, and making complicated subjects accessible for all kinds of audiences.By Syosset Public Library - Librarians
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