{"id":97441,"date":"2016-04-27T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=97441"},"modified":"2016-04-27T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T14:24:37","slug":"be-bold-with-bananas-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/27\/be-bold-with-bananas-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Bold with Bananas, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97443\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bananas.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97443\" class=\"wp-image-97443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bananas.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bananas.jpeg 1223w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bananas-229x300.jpeg 229w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bananas-768x1005.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bananas-783x1024.jpeg 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Go on.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Deaccessioning: it\u2019s one of the cruel realities of our time. But how do libraries determine which books turn to pulp and which remain to yellow on shelves? According to Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, who\u2019ve created a blog called Awful Library Books, it\u2019s easier than you think: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/weeding-the-worst-library-books\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly and Hibner created the site in 2009. Each week, they highlight books that seem to them so self-evidently ridiculous that weeding is the only possible recourse<\/a>. They often feature books with outlandish titles, like <em>Little Corpuscle<\/em>, a children\u2019s book starring a dancing red blood cell; <em>Enlarging Is Thrilling<\/em>, a how-to about\u2014you guessed it\u2014film photography; and <em>God, the Rod, and Your Child\u2019s Bod: The Art of Loving Correction for Christian Parents<\/em> \u2026 \u2018I pull one or two books a week. Nobody\u2019s going to even question that,\u2019 Hibner said. She also keeps a bag of her favorite weeded books under her desk\u2014<em>Vans: The Personality Vehicle<\/em>, <em>Be Bold with Bananas<\/em>\u2014in case any inquisitive patrons want examples.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s not always easy to muster one\u2019s enthusiasm for railways\u2014even train buffs get the blues. But James Meek has been reading <em>The Railways: Nation, Network and People<\/em>, and so can offer a vital refresher for a world suffering from rail fatigue: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v38\/n09\/james-meek\/trains-in-space\" target=\"_blank\">The shock of the speed of the first trains, three times faster than a stagecoach, wasn\u2019t only physical, embodied in the sensations of acceleration and travel, but conceptual: the old measures of distance, how far town X was from town Y, were rendered irrelevant, leading to what commentators as early as 1833 were calling \u2018the annihilation of space by time\u2019, twenty-five years before Karl Marx used the phrase in the <em>Grundrisse<\/em><\/a>. Along with the speed of the trains was the shock of the speed with which the railways spread, gouging cuttings out of hills, flinging embankments across bowls of land, boring and blasting tunnels through solid rock, hurling viaducts over valleys and gorges \u2026 Writing in the 1960s, Michael Robbins said: \u2018The Victorians who created the railway look like a race imbued with some demonic energy.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>David Means discusses his new novel, <em>Hystopia<\/em>, and the way he manipulates time in his fiction: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/one-those-problematic-believers\" target=\"_blank\">For me, grace lies in a paradox<\/a>: the moment you are fully in existence while also fully aware of the vastness of time itself; so you\u2019re sitting there in a hospital hallway holding a baby and the baby is looking up at you and you\u2019re in the moment but also aware of the hugeness of the moment, the inexplicable forgiveness in the tactile feeling of this newborn life in your hands and the absolute innocent need inside the baby\u2019s gaze. The writer\u2019s job is to be as true as possible, not only in the drafting but the revision process, to the words and the reality that they are representing and creating. That requires an attempt at humility before the material, somehow. Humor and grace, for me, are entwined.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s great that Harriet Tubman will soon grace our twenties, but isn\u2019t it time to spice up the ol\u2019 government oil-portrait collection, too? \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/133060\/painted-government-art\" target=\"_blank\">Looking through the House and Senate portrait collections, you\u2019ll find a wealth of white legislators in ill-fitting suits posing awkwardly among symbolic objects: dogs, children, clocks, gavels, and flags\u2014lots of flags<\/a> \u2026 But if you\u2019re not a white man, gay or straight, good luck getting a portrait painted before you die. The first Asian American in Congress, Dalip Singh Saund (D-CA), served as a representative for four years until a stroke ended his political career in 1962 \u2026 Saund died in 1973, but his portrait wasn\u2019t commissioned until 2007, over forty years later, and it shows him standing in the Capitol rotunda, bordered by the places and people that influenced his career: India, California, Gandhi, and Lincoln.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in new exhibitions: \u201cOlsen Twins Hiding From the Paparazzi.\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2016\/04\/inside-olsen-twins-hiding-from-the-paparazzi-museum-exhibit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ever wish that visiting a museum was more like watching reality TV and simultaneously browsing TMZ, all while a few wine coolers deep? You\u2019re in luck<\/a> \u2026 [the artist Laura Collins] had a series of paintings depicting the Olsen twins hiding from the paparazzi \u2026 Collins\u2019s artwork lines the hallway, which is operating under a \u2018jungle\u2019 theme, complete with large green-paper leaves. Mary-Kate and Ashley are not identified in each painting, which Collins says is intentional. \u2018I have no idea who\u2019s who. I wanted it to be like, they\u2019re kinda interchangeable. We almost don\u2019t care who\u2019s who.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deaccessioning: it\u2019s one of the cruel realities of our time. But how do libraries determine which books turn to pulp and which remain to yellow on shelves? According to Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, who\u2019ve created a blog called Awful Library Books, it\u2019s easier than you think: \u201cKelly and Hibner created the site in 2009. 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