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“If you had told me when I began that I would have my work on a museum wall, I would have thought, ‘What’s happened to civilization?’ ” says Daniel Clowes, the artist behind this week’s Science Fiction Issue cover, “Crashing the Gate.” A retrospective of Clowes’s work is on view at the Oakland Museum of California.

“It feels like I snuck in a museum through a side door somehow. For all the painters and sculptors I went to art school with, to slip into a museum through comics might seem very clever and dishonest.” He laughs. “But now that I’m at the top, I can only go down. it’s hard not to feel like, ‘They gave me my retirement party.’ A big career retrospective seems like a thing you should only get when you’re seventy-five or so.”

Daniel Clowes cover illustration for the science fiction issue of The New Yorker.

Libraries cannot fail to provide their readers with digitized material, especially in the form of e-journals and databases, and they cannot stop buying printed books. Therefore, they must advance simultaneously on the analog and the digital fronts. That problem, compounded by diminishing funds, underlies the predicament of the New York Public Library. It won’t disappear if we reject the renovation plan and retain a twentieth-century mode of operation.

In Defense of the New York Public Library by Robert Darnton | The New York Review of Books

Fan fiction is “still the cultural equivalent of dark matter,” he writes. “It’s largely invisible to the mainstream, but at the same time, it’s unbelievably massive.” (FanFiction.net, the largest fanfic site in the world, has more than two million users and nearly 600,000 Harry Potter stories.)

The Millions : Fifty Shades of Fan Fiction

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Winterson learned to write by countering the voice of a difficult mother; Bechdel by absorbing it.

Jeanette Winterson and Alison Bechdel’s Memoirs About Mothers — New York Magazine Book Review

teaching the “science and art of reading” meant, among other things, encouraging library users to read “by subjects and not by authors”; to “perus[e] a book not because it is the newest or the oldest, but because it is the very one they need to help them on to the next stage of their inquiries”; and to “re-read[] the masterpieces of genius again and again.

Library Juice Press, LLC : The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship

(via Favorite Snacks of the Great Writers - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com)

Selected for the National Medal for the Arts in 1997, the highest award given to artists, Rich refused it. “The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate,” she wrote in a letter addressed to then-President Clinton. “A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.”

(via Poet Adrienne Rich, 82, has died - latimes.com)

Selected for the National Medal for the Arts in 1997, the highest award given to artists, Rich refused it. “The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate,” she wrote in a letter addressed to then-President Clinton. “A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.”

(via Poet Adrienne Rich, 82, has died - latimes.com)