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Maps of the Imagination
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Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities
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“Fascinating. Turchi’s extended metaphor delves into cartography and writing using fruitful examples.
Some of particular interest are Italo Calvino’s if on a winter’s night a traveler, origins of the Way Finder, Borges’ paratexts (books within stories, for example) and an all-too brief touching on fractals.
It is Highly Recommended that you buy a copy and have a pencil handy—insights and inspirations abound!
“As travelers through fiction and poetry, we need to distrust the urge to scoop up theme and meaning, as if the things we can neatly pack are necessarily the things we came for.””
About Peter Turchi
Peter Turchi has written and coedited several books on writing fiction, including Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft, and (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before and Other Essays on Writing Fiction. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Story, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and the Colorado Review, among other journals. He has received numerous accolades, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston.
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