We’re back! This time we are talking about How to Be a Library Tourist, Democratic presidential candidate memoirs, and Sesame Street!
APPETIZERS
| Town of Brookhaven: Parks and Recreation | 3m |
| How to be a library archive tourist “When I’m traveling and am at a loss for how to spend my time, I look up as many libraries I can in the area I’ll be traveling to, and I check to see if they have special collections. Then I make an appointment with the library to visit those special collections, and usually it means I get to spend a day in a quiet, climate-controlled room with cool old documents. It’s like a museum but with no people, and where you have to do all the work, which is honestly my idea of a perfect vacation.” | 5m |
| Joy Harjo “Joy Harjo was appointed the new United States poet laureate in June 2019, and is the first Native American Poet Laureate in the history of the position. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 9, 1951, and is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation.” | 8m |
| Television’s Status Anxiety: An Interview with Emily Nussbaum “… After twenty years of writing about television, Nussbaum remains curious about the ways in which it’s shifting, and how that impacts our culture. Her criticism often places each show in historical context, and considers what it is bringing to us that is new or different.” | 10m |
ENTRÉE
| What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues “… Amazon takes a hands-off approach to what goes on in its bookstore, never checking the authenticity, much less the quality, of what it sells. It does not oversee the sellers who have flocked to its site in any organized way.” | 13m |
| Every 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate’s Memoir, Reviewed “It may surprise you to learn that the majority of these candidates are also published authors.” | 16m |
| The Surreal End of an American College “Small schools across the United States are facing budget shortfalls and low enrollment—leading some to shut down in the middle of students’ higher-education experience.” | 21m |