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Borrowed & ReturnedAuthor: Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn Public Library is full of stories. Borrowed brings the best of them to you.Current podcast series:Launching July 8, 2025, Borrowed & Returned is a new podcast series that examines what our reading public borrowed in the past, and what were all reading now. In conversations with library workers, authors and readers across the country, well return to the books that changed us, and changed America, too. Previous podcast series: Borrowed and Banned is our limited series about America's ideological war with its bookshelves. From September to December 2023, we released ten episodes featuring the stories of students on the frontlines, librarians and teachers whose livelihoods are endangered when they speak up, and writers whose books have become political battleground. Borrowed, BPL's flagship podcast, is a narrative series about superhero librarians, neighborhood stories and what it means to be a free, democratic place in todays changing world. We tell stories about libraries during natural disasters, the challenges of homelessness, and NYCs fraught relationship with trash.For transcripts, pictures, book lists, and resources, please visit our web page: bklynlib.org/podcasts Language: en Genres: Arts, Books, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Molly Crabapple on Making Art in a Turbulent World
Episode 12
Tuesday, 7 October, 2025
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer who documents the extremes, from nightclubs to war zones. She’s also the author of several books, including Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun, a memoir of the Syrian War co-written with Marwan Hisham. We sat down with Crabapple to talk about the difference between words and images, making art in the world, and the power of cartoonists to disrupt fascism.You can read a transcript of this episode here. And check out the following links:Check out our booklist with books recommended for this episode.Read Molly Crabapple’s Drawing Blood, and you can pre-order her new book about the Jewish Labor Bund.See Molly’s drawings and articles about the Dallas Six and the NYC taxi driver strike. You can also read Molly’s interview with Art Spiegelman.Art Spiegelman’s comic collaboration with Joe Sacco was published in The New York Review of Books earlier this year. You can check out Sacco’s Palestine and his more recent War on Gaza from the library.
