{"id":112360,"date":"2017-07-11T09:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T13:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=112360"},"modified":"2017-07-11T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:14:08","slug":"im-in-love-with-a-card-catalog-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/im-in-love-with-a-card-catalog-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m in Love with a Card Catalog, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/woman_at_main_reading_room_card_catalog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-112361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/woman_at_main_reading_room_card_catalog.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/woman_at_main_reading_room_card_catalog.jpg 1072w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/woman_at_main_reading_room_card_catalog-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/woman_at_main_reading_room_card_catalog-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/woman_at_main_reading_room_card_catalog-1024x818.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some people fetishize librarians. Me, I fetishize the card catalog. It\u2019s a lonely fetish\u2014no pornographer, to my knowledge, has yet written a starring role for a card catalog, or even a cameo. But I think it\u2019s only a matter of time. I mean, look at these catalogs! They\u2019re so big\u2014so\u00a0full\u2014so \u2026 alive with utility. The way a card catalog oozes democratic spirit and well-organized accessibility, it just gets my heart racing. A new book by the Library of Congress, <em>The Card Catalog<\/em>, is almost titillating in its portrayal of objects in obsolescence. As Michael Lindgren writes, beneath its sumptuous photography, the book mounts a compelling and perhaps depressing case for bygone forms of information technology: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/what-libraries-lost-when-they-threw-out-the-card-catalog\/2017\/07\/07\/5432821c-632f-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html?utm_term=.61af2a532d1b\" target=\"_blank\">The text provides a concise history of literary compendia from the Pinakes of the fabled Library of Alexandria to the advent of computerized book inventory databases, which began to appear as early as 1976<\/a>. The illustrations are amazing: luscious reproductions of dozens of cards, lists, covers, title pages and other images guaranteed to bring a wistful gleam to the book nerd\u2019s eye \u2026 Now, waxing nostalgic about card catalogs or being an advocate for the importance of libraries is a mug\u2019s game. You can practically feel people glancing up from their iPhones to smile tolerantly at your eccentricity \u2026 Although some contemporary readers might consider this book outrageously quaint, the card catalog\u2019s conceptual structure was the underpinning of the Internet; the idea of something being \u2018tagged\u2019 by category owes its existence as an organizing principle to the subject headings delineated by the Library of Congress. A national card catalog system was the original \u2018search engine\u2019 \u2026 The card catalog stands with other great twentieth-century works of civic architecture as testament to the potential of what a society\u2014and a government\u2014can achieve \u2026 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you an artist over sixty? Are you tired of hot young bucks getting all the fame and glory? Marlena Vaccaro wants to be your gallerist. As James Barron reports, her Chelsea gallery represents only older artists\u2014an attempt to thwart entrenched ageism in the art world: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/09\/nyregion\/at-a-chelsea-art-gallery-an-age-requirement-over-60-only.html?utm_source=Breakfast+with+ARTnews&amp;utm_campaign=21f3a74ad8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_07&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c5d7f10ceb-21f3a74ad8-293591421&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The gallery began several years ago when Ms. Vaccaro decided that someone should counter an art world problem<\/a>: Older, lesser-known artists were being passed by just because they were, yes, older. She had heard stories. Ms. Vaccaro was a painter and printmaker who also worked in mixed media. She had owned a gallery in TriBeCa. \u2018If, by the time you\u2019re forty, you haven\u2019t demonstrated earning power in terms of sales, it\u2019s hard to get the attention of a big gallery,\u2019 she said. \u2018I don\u2019t think it\u2019s only ageism at work. It\u2019s the economy of running a gallery. Sure, there are tons of galleries that show older artists, but they are the high earners. Everyone who was big and famous in the sixties and seventies is older now. They\u2019re still represented if they\u2019re still alive, and their paintings still sell for gigantic dollars.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, a new production of <em>Measure for Measure <\/em>attempts to make sense of the play\u2019s opaque sexual politics, which have confounded audiences for centuries. Geoffrey O\u2019Brien writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/10\/shakespeares-pornography-of-power-measure-for-measure\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Godwin\u2019s pathway into the play \u2026\u00a0is by way of a corridor through Mistress Overdone\u2019s brothel<\/a>, along a narrow basement path lined with discreetly closed cubicles and arrays of lubes, dildos, anal plugs, shackles and handcuffs, multicolored condoms, an inflatable sex doll \u2026 Given the perennial relevance of the various injustices it circles around\u2014the sexual exploitation and pious hypocrisy and persecution of whistle-blowers\u2014<em>Measure for Measure\u00a0<\/em>invites updating \u2026 But it\u2019s in the nature of\u00a0<em>Measure for Measure<\/em>\u00a0that whatever contemporary analogies are invoked cannot quite make sense of what happens \u2026 An audience that wants to take the play as readily grasped satire cannot evade the puzzlements and reversals of judgment that come in its later scenes\u2014reversals of judgment that do not end even when the play is done.\u00a0<em>Measure for Measure<\/em>\u00a0is a perpetual questioning machine, exquisitely functional, set to a relentless tempo, yet a machine that bristles and crackles in its joints with contradiction and discomfort.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Joshua Rothman is reading Finn Murphy\u2019s <em>The Long Haul<\/em>, a truck driver\u2019s attempt to pull back the curtain on \u201cthe semi-mythic world\u201d of the 18-wheeler: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/trucking-as-a-state-of-mind\">Murphy understands himself as a chronicler of American decline<\/a>. He reports that quality American furniture has disappeared\u2014it\u2019s been replaced by\u00a0<small>IKEA<\/small>\u2014and that no one owns books anymore. Hauling cross-country means \u2018breezing through one dead or dying town after another\u2019 in a landscape that \u2018looks like an episode from <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>\u2019; everywhere, rings of chain stores and pawnshops surround decaying post-industrial downtowns. Murphy concludes that, outside of the big cities, university towns are the only good places left. Ruminating on American tourism posters\u2014apple orchards in New England, porch swings down South, cowboys out West\u2014he writes, \u2018If a tourist poster of America were made with some verisimilitude, it would show a Subway franchise inside a convenience-store gas station with an under-paid immigrant mopping the floor and a street person at the traffic light holding a cardboard sign that reads <small>ANYTHING HELPS<\/small>.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At the Huntington Library, in the suburbs of Pasadena, a new exhibition celebrates the life of Octavia Butler. The show is rich in ephemera and personal artifacts\u2014among other items on display are Butler\u2019s handwritten reminders to herself, one of which reads, \u201cMake People FEEL! FEEL! FEEL!\u201d Karen Grigsby Bates writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2017\/07\/10\/535879364\/octavia-butler-writing-herself-into-the-story\" target=\"_blank\">She grew up black and poor in Pasadena, Calif., when legal segregation was dead, but de facto segregation was very much alive<\/a>. She was also shy, unusually tall for her age, and not particularly social. \u2018I\u2019m an only child,\u2019 Butler told\u00a0<em>Sci Fi Buzz<\/em>. \u2018I had no idea how to get along with other children. And also, I was a strange kid who learned to stay by herself and make things up.\u2019 She often made them up while sitting on the porch at her grandmother\u2019s chicken farm, in the High Desert town of Victorville, Calif., where she dreamed about animals. The drawings of horses that illustrated one of her early stories are on the walls at the Huntington \u2026 In several interviews Butler said she wrote because she had two choices: write, or die. \u2018If I hadn\u2019t written, I probably would have done something stupid that would have led to my death,\u2019 she said cheerfully.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: a new book celebrates the forgotten joys of the card catalog; a gallerist fights ageism in the art world; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[17914,14810,29044,7676,29491,8669,7148,7292,29492,21824,29494,29490,29042,29493,2295],"class_list":["post-112360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-ageism","tag-card-catalogs","tag-finn-murphy","tag-galleries","tag-information-technology","tag-librarians","tag-libraries","tag-library-of-congress","tag-marlena-vaccaro","tag-measure-for-measure","tag-octavia-butler","tag-the-card-catalog","tag-truck-drivers","tag-trucking","tag-william-shakespeare"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Some People Fetishize Librarians; 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