{"id":109463,"date":"2017-03-31T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=109463"},"modified":"2017-03-31T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:14:45","slug":"dogs-dont-talk-in-times-new-roman-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/31\/dogs-dont-talk-in-times-new-roman-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Don\u2019t Talk in Times New Roman, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_109464\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/boblogin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109464\" class=\"wp-image-109464 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/boblogin.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/boblogin.png 640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/boblogin-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab from Microsoft Bob.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prediction: Comic Sans MS is due for a comeback. Ostracized and maligned for decades, the world\u2019s most controversial typeface is about to come in from the cold. Books will be printed in Comic Sans. Official memoranda will be typed in it. Highway signs will use it; fashion labels will use it; we will put it on the moon. Vincent Connare, a typographer for Microsoft in the nineties who designed Comic Sans, has begun to campaign for its rehabilitation. He maintains that the font is a perfect marriage of form and content, especially given Microsoft\u2019s ambitions at the time: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2017\/mar\/28\/how-we-made-font-comic-sans-typography\" target=\"_blank\">One program was called Microsoft Bob, which was designed to make computers more accessible to children<\/a>. I booted it up and out walked this cartoon dog, talking with a speech bubble in Times New Roman. Dogs don\u2019t talk in Times New Roman! Conceptually, it made no sense \u2026 Type should do exactly what it\u2019s intended to do. That\u2019s why I\u2019m proud of Comic Sans. It was for novice computer users and it succeeded with that market. People use it inappropriately: if they don\u2019t understand how type works, it won\u2019t have any power or meaning to them. I once heard a guy at a Rothko\u00a0show say: \u2018I could have done that.\u2019 He clearly doesn\u2019t know anything about art. He\u2019ll probably use Comic Sans without realizing it\u2019s wrong in certain circumstances.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Oh, I forgot about baseball! Baseball uniforms will use Comic Sans. Bet your life on it. The MLB\u2019s new commissioner, Rob Manfred, is pitching all sorts of wild ideas for the game. Why not a typeface change? After all, Jay Caspian Kang, looking into baseball\u2019s past, reminds us that the game has seen plenty of upgrades since the nineteenth century, when warring New York and Massachusetts factions\u00a0vied for primacy: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/28\/magazine\/as-baseball-considers-change-it-should-look-to-its-past.html?mtrref=getpocket.com&amp;gwh=DC6E506346F2496C29F910BE97F92F03&amp;gwt=pay&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The Massachusetts game featured one-out innings and overhand pitching, and batters could be called out by being hit by a thrown ball while between bases<\/a>. Typically, the first team to score 100 runs won. The New York game was a bit more genteel and pragmatic: Games were played to 21, not 100; pitchers had to throw underhand; no players had balls intentionally thrown at them; and games concluded before dark. The debates over which version was better centered on manliness, decorum and the pace of play. The Massachusetts crowd argued that it was manlier for outs to require some measure of physical pain, while the New Yorkers said that manliness could never be extricated from gentlemanly manners and that only savages ran around fields pegging balls at one another.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evgenia Peretz profiles Nan Talese, one of the most prodigious editors in New York\u2014and, next to her husband, an astonishingly self-effacing professional: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2017\/03\/nan-talese-publishing-career-marriage\" target=\"_blank\">In an initial e-mail, she pooh-poohed the idea that she\u2019d done anything noteworthy<\/a>. \u2018Doesn\u2019t breaking the glass ceiling mean becoming president or CEO? I simply have my own imprint and I have been lucky to have authors follow me when I went to another publishing company. Best wishes, Nan\u2019 \u2026 With no political point to make, no precedent or road map for a woman, Nan simply assumed the duties of editor. She brought in groovy poet Rod McKuen, who\u2019d been selling books out of his car in California; he ended up accounting for 24 percent of Random House\u2019s revenue for a few years. She found A. Alvarez\u2019s daring\u00a0<em>The Savage God<\/em>, an unlikely best-seller about suicide and art. The concept of maternity leave didn\u2019t exist then. So in 1963, when she got pregnant for the first time, she didn\u2019t tell anyone until it became obvious\u2014not because she feared for her job, but because it was none of anyone\u2019s business. She\u2019d been working on copyright certificates up until labor and continued to do so from her hospital bed. Following Pamela\u2019s birth, Nan immediately returned to work.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Paula Kupfer travels to Col\u00f3n, once the most glamorous\u2014and diverse\u2014city in Panama: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/god-is-from-colon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Originally referred to by Americans as \u2018Aspinwall,\u2019 after the U.S. railroad magnate William H. Aspinwall, the city was founded in 1850 with the construction of the first Transisthmian railway, which became instrumental to the California gold-rush traffic<\/a>. The railroad provided East Coast travelers a safer travel option than to cross the U.S. by land. It made use of an existing network of mail ships, led by the U.S. Mail Steamship Company, which sailed between New York and the Atlantic coast of Panama, and, on the other side, between Panama City on the Pacific coast and San Francisco. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Col\u00f3n housed thousands of Afro-Antillean labor migrants arriving in Panama to work on the railroad, as well as canal workers. A mix of low-income laborers, merchants, and foreign tourists, Col\u00f3n was the virtual opposite of the orderly Canal Zone. As literary historian Jennifer Brittan put it, the city was \u2018a reverse Tower of Babel, drawing in such a range of languages and dialects that the canal\u2019s promise of regional coherence [coincided] with the creation of a profound linguistic confusion.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And Jeffrey Zuckerman reads Mathias \u00c9nard\u2019s <em>Compass<\/em>, a novel that points to a way forward for France\u2019s relations with Islam: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/141681\/mathias-enards-compass-antidote-europes-islamophobia\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c9nard asserted that the media\u2019s constant focus on radical Islam and violent conflict \u2018hinders any prospect of discovering the region\u2019s historical richness and variety<\/a>. And it obscures the dialogue that could develop between the Orient and the Occident \u2026 There are no insurmountable boundaries. Rules are there to be broken.\u2019 If his boundless curiosity is any indication, there may well be reason to hope that the West can look at the East, not with presuppositions or stereotypes, but with an openness that allows them to glean a reality they had never seen before.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: Comic Sans is due for a comeback, baseball\u2019s due for  change, and Nan Talese is overdue for a Vanity Fair 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