{"id":86253,"date":"2015-06-02T08:27:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=86253"},"modified":"2015-06-02T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:23:42","slug":"urgent-questions-for-librarians-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/02\/urgent-questions-for-librarians-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Questions for Librarians, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_86255\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/332c441b-e25b-451b-afd8-206db514470e-620x620.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86255\" class=\"wp-image-86255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/332c441b-e25b-451b-afd8-206db514470e-620x620.jpeg\" alt=\"332c441b-e25b-451b-afd8-206db514470e-620x620\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/332c441b-e25b-451b-afd8-206db514470e-620x620.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/332c441b-e25b-451b-afd8-206db514470e-620x620-300x231.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A question to an NYPL librarian from October 1976. Photo: NYPL, via the Guardian<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMy idea of hell on earth,\u201d Philip Larkin wrote once, \u201cis a literary party.\u201d He had in mind the Oxford parties of his era, which, much like the Oxford parties of this era, comprised \u201ca lot of sherry drill with important people.\u201d But what if those parties were in fact <em>really entertaining<\/em>, as at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jun\/01\/philip-larkin-doris-lessing-literary-party?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\">one guest avows they were<\/a>? \u201cGod, they were fun. Ever since Mrs. Dylan Thomas, at a literary party, stuck her elbow into the bowl of ice cream that T. S. Eliot was eating from, before presenting it to the great poet with the instruction to \u2018Lick it off,\u2019 these things have been democratic, argumentative and often memorable.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPlease give me the name of a book that dramatizes bedbugs?\u201d \u201cWhat is the significance of the hip movement in the Hawaiian dance?\u201d \u201cIs it good poetry where every other line rhymes, instead of having each line rhyme with the one before it?\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/may\/28\/librarian-new-york-public-librarys-quirkiest-enquiries\" target=\"_blank\">Questions for librarians at the New York Public Library<\/a>\u00a0before there was the Internet.<\/li>\n<li>Saul Bellow\u2019s portraitist <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/books\/308947\/painting-saul-bellow\/\" target=\"_blank\">remembers their encounter<\/a>: \u201cBellow talked all the while, about life in New York when he was younger, his cohorts and various writers. What a duplistic moment for me: I had to ask him to be quiet so I could take some close-ups. He was fidgety even while cooperating. He picked up a book of Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets and began reading, first quietly, and then aloud. I listened for a few minutes, and cringing apologetically, shushed him again.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/06\/08\/the-course-of-happiness?mbid=social_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Louise Erdrich could go back in time<\/a>, she\u2019d go to prison, as long as the company was good: \u201cI am stranded for a few days in a comfortable jail cell with Walt Whitman and Henry James. I take one side of the room, share a bunk with Emily Dickinson. We listen in on their awkward conversations, exchange sharp glances of amusement.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Max Mathews, who died in April, wasn\u2019t the first person to make sounds with a computer\u2014but his experiments with an IBM 704 mainframe in 1957 were the first to use \u201ca replicable combination of hardware and software that allowed the user to specify what tones he wanted to hear.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/08\/the-first-computer-musician\/\" target=\"_blank\">He was the first computer musician<\/a>: \u201cHe provided the initial research for virtually every aspect of computer music, from his early work with programming languages for synthesis and composition \u2026 to foundational research in real-time performance \u2026\u00a0Max also helped start the conversation about how humans were meant to interact with computers by developing everything from modified violins to idiosyncratic control systems such as the Radio 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