{"id":1786271,"date":"2018-09-17T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T17:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786271"},"modified":"2018-09-17T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T17:42:31","slug":"david-mitchell-on-starting-with-a-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/david-mitchell-on-starting-with-a-map\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mitchell on Starting with a Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Fictitious maps give form to a thing\u2014the imagination\u2014that has no form. They are mysteries and answers to those mysteries.” The New Yorker<\/em> publishes a piece by Cloud Atlas<\/em> author David Mitchell<\/a> in which he describes his creative process, which since childhood has meant to Start with a Map\u2014something he calls “a displacement activity,” but in the same breath he says “mapmaking and stage-sketching can be necessary aspects of writing.” Mitchell’s essay is an excerpt from a forthcoming book edited by Huw Lewis-Jones: The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands<\/em><\/a> (University of Chicago Press<\/a>, October), which sounds right up my alley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Fictitious maps give form to a thing\u2014the imagination\u2014that has no form. They are mysteries and answers to those mysteries.” The New Yorker publishes a piece by Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell in which he describes… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786498,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/more-from-and-on-the-writers-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786271,"position":0},"title":"More from (and on) The Writer’s Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 October 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"On Monday\u00a0I received a review copy of The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, a collection of essays edited by Huw Lewis-Jones. It's out this week from the University of Chicago Press. It's very much up my alley, relevant to my interests, et cetera, and I'm looking forward to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Maps and Literature"","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-writers-map-209x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1786763,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/the-writers-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786271,"position":1},"title":"The Writer’s Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"My review of The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands went live today on Tor.com. Edited by the historian of exploration Huw Lewis-Jones, The Writer's Map is a collection of essays and maps that explore the relationship between maps and stories; the essays are written both by the creators\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Book Reviews"","block_context":{"text":"Book Reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/book-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Writer's Map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-writers-map-209x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1788038,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/the-writers-map-wins-a-world-fantasy-award\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786271,"position":2},"title":"The Writer’s Map Wins a World Fantasy Award","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 November 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The Writer\u2019s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, which I reviewed on Tor.com last year, has won a World Fantasy Award for its editor, Huw Lewis-Jones. The 2019 World Fantasy Awards were announced yesterday at the World Fantasy Convention, held this year in Los Angeles; Lewis-Jones won in the Special\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Maps and Literature"","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Writer\u2019s Map (cover)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-writers-map-209x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3778,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/01\/utah-drawn\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786271,"position":3},"title":"Utah Drawn","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 January 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Another map exhibition I neglected to mention yesterday:\u00a0Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps\u00a0runs from 27 January to late summer 2017 at the Utah Capitol Building in Salt Lake City; it features \"forty\u00a0rare historical maps depicting the region that became the state of Utah from its earliest imaginings by European\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/young-deseret-1024x683.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/young-deseret-1024x683.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/young-deseret-1024x683.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/young-deseret-1024x683.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1811567,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/imhofs-high-school-atlas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786271,"position":4},"title":"Imhof’s High School Atlas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 January 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Well, would you look at that. The David Rumsey Map Collection has uploaded a copy of the 1969 edition of the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas\u2014a Swiss school atlas\u2014edited by none other than Eduard Imhof. From the 1930s through the 1970s Imhof was responsible for Swiss school atlases at both the primary and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Education"","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A relief map of a part of Switzerland. From Eduard Imhof (ed.), Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, 15th ed. (Z\u00fcrich, 1969), p. 7. 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