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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Those two groups of people, the liberals and the more radical, socialist types, have so...

Those two groups of people, the liberals and the more radical, socialist types, have so much more in common than slave planters who are arguing that bourgeois society is a lie

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Those two groups of people,
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the liberals and the more radical, socialist types,
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have so much more in common than slave planters
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who are arguing that bourgeois society is a lie.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
02:39:42
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
It's been good for him. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
It's been good for him.
Let's hear it, New York! - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Let's hear it, New York!
Genet took these very marginalized people, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:15
Genet took these very marginalized people,
The Thief's Journal is my favorite book of Genet, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
The Thief's Journal is my favorite book of Genet,
I love it because he takes, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
I love it because he takes,
It's a memoir, yet it's completely true - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
It's a memoir, yet it's completely true
Because that's the kind of guy Genet was. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Because that's the kind of guy Genet was.
But when I say false, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
But when I say false,
And in this way it's close to what Anselm Kiefer says. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
And in this way it's close to what Anselm Kiefer says.
Yes, and I think that, you know, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
Yes, and I think that, you know,
Whose memoirs do you like?" - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Whose memoirs do you like?"
Really strange that I should be writing nonfiction, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
Really strange that I should be writing nonfiction,
But, um... but that's the kind of, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
But, um... but that's the kind of,
I didn't want to just sit and write an autobiography. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
I didn't want to just sit and write an autobiography.
I wanted to, you know... And you don't. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
I wanted to, you know... And you don't.
Just write about real time, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
Just write about real time,
It contains, you know, spinning off. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
It contains, you know, spinning off.
It contains, uh, uh, misinterpretation. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
It contains, uh, uh, misinterpretation.
So I was very interested in finding a way - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
So I was very interested in finding a way
In the spirit of getting things done, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:17
In the spirit of getting things done,