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Available
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Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Description
"The Writer's Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity. " -- Publisher's description.
User reviews
LibraryThing member bookomaniac
This is first and foremost a coffee table book to look at and marvel: it’s full of imagined maps, old and new, mostly made to accompany stories ranging from Gulliver's Travels or Robinson Crusoe to Lord of the Rings, Narnia, and Peter Pan. Various writers and illustrators testify to their
Editor Huw Lewis-Jones aptly puts it this way: “maps are invitations. We can read them, read with them, draw and redraw them, use them, share them, add and alter them, enter into them. As representations, they are always partial, always incomplete, and yet they always offer us more than what is held there on paper alone. Maps begin a story. They send us off on new journeys, set our feet moving and our minds racing. Maps inform us and they encourage wonder. Maps give us guidance and direction, and show us the range of a territory, but they can only ever suggest a greater whole. The rest is up to you ”. I think that says it all.
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fascination for maps and how they portray the real reality, or the reality of a story. Because that is a recurring theme: reality and imagination are only separated by a vague dividing line, and in many cases they run together.Editor Huw Lewis-Jones aptly puts it this way: “maps are invitations. We can read them, read with them, draw and redraw them, use them, share them, add and alter them, enter into them. As representations, they are always partial, always incomplete, and yet they always offer us more than what is held there on paper alone. Maps begin a story. They send us off on new journeys, set our feet moving and our minds racing. Maps inform us and they encourage wonder. Maps give us guidance and direction, and show us the range of a territory, but they can only ever suggest a greater whole. The rest is up to you ”. I think that says it all.
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LibraryThing member wanderlustlover
Thank you to Hue Lewis-Jones, University of Chicago Press, and NetGalley for allowing me the extreme pleasure of access to an advanced reader copy of “The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands” for an honest review.
I absolutely had to jump at the chance to request and review this book at
The pictures are gorgeous, colored copies, laid out well against the places they've come from (text of novels, and poems, and epics, and on). There are reflections by those still writing now (about their past, present, and current worlds) who were included, as well as pieces from earlier decades and writers who penned our favorite universes, and who gave birth to our dreams and nightmares.
I recommend this to all people who love the magical lands we've traversed in our writing, and long to touch, just for a second, those worlds we've crossed and recrossed.
I absolutely had to jump at the chance to request and review this book at
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the first glance of its title and synopsis. What could be better than a book of all the maps, both given to us, and inspired by, our favorite literary worlds? I was enamored from its first hint of existence, which made the experience transcendent once I received my copy. The pictures are gorgeous, colored copies, laid out well against the places they've come from (text of novels, and poems, and epics, and on). There are reflections by those still writing now (about their past, present, and current worlds) who were included, as well as pieces from earlier decades and writers who penned our favorite universes, and who gave birth to our dreams and nightmares.
I recommend this to all people who love the magical lands we've traversed in our writing, and long to touch, just for a second, those worlds we've crossed and recrossed.
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Awards
NPR: Books We Love (2018)
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Physical description
256 p.; 31 cm
ISBN
9780226596631
Local notes
Almost oversize.