{"id":28531,"date":"2022-03-18T08:07:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=28531"},"modified":"2022-03-18T08:07:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:07:19","slug":"sara-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/18\/sara-duke\/","title":{"rendered":"Share deep-fried wontons with Library of Congress curator Sara Duke in Episode 167 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Library of Congress curator Sara Duke<\/a> and I were supposed to have lunch two years ago, way back in March of 2020, but then … something happened. I suspect you can guess what that something was. We finally managed to break bread — or rather, share Pad See Ew — last week at D.C.’s Young Chow<\/a> Chinese restaurant.<\/p>\n

Sara Duke has been at the Library of Congress for more than 30 years, the past 23 as the curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Art in the Prints and Photographs Division. She\u2019s in charge of cartoons, documentary drawings, and ephemera. Starting with Blondie Gets Married<\/a> in 2000, she\u2019s been responsible for curating many exhibits relating to popular culture, including Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages<\/a>, and most recently, Geppi\u2019s Gems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We discussed the first piece of artwork she longed to get her hands on after a 13-month pandemic absence, our joint loathing of slabbed comics, the misconceptions many people have about the Library of Congress, the things most people no longer remember about Blondie<\/em>, her comic book exhibit cancelled by COVID, the serendipitous way a PhD in 17th century Irish history led to her becoming a curator, her early (and continuing) love of MAD magazine, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 166 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Use the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply listen via the embed below.<\/p>\n