Guess What SHOULDN'T Replace Libraries?
Aug 16, 2018•42 min•Ep. 104
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Episode description
Answer: anything! Frank and Gwen discuss why for-profit businesses cannot and should not take libraries' place in society. Plus, recommendations for two small books that contain very big worlds.
Book Recommendations
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey
The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Oleg Kagan's opinion piece about how libraries are not companies, and more information about Forbes deleting the original op-ed.
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