{"id":1788820,"date":"2020-05-14T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788820"},"modified":"2020-05-14T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:13:14","slug":"the-guardian-interviews-martin-vargic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/05\/the-guardian-interviews-martin-vargic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian Interviews Martin Vargic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Detail from Martin Vargic, \u201cBritannia Under the Waves.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday\u2019s Guardian<\/em> had an interview<\/a> with Slovak designer Martin Vargic<\/a>, whom you may remember for his 2015 book Vargic\u2019s Miscellany of Curious Maps<\/em> [Amazon<\/a>, Bookshop<\/a>]. In this interview, Vargic talks about his various projects<\/a>\u2014he\u2019s been doing this since he was eight, and was a teenager when Miscellany<\/em> was published. One imagines there\u2019s a bit of a career ahead for him.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Andrew Liptak wrote about<\/a> Vargic\u2019s \u201cMap of the Literature II<\/a>\u201d at Tor.com last October. In November Vargic\u2019s second book, Vargic\u2019s Curious Cosmic Compendium<\/em><\/a>, came out in the U.K. from Michael Joseph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously: Vargic\u2019s Miscellany of Curious Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u2019s Guardian had an interview with Slovak designer Martin Vargic, whom you may remember for his 2015 book Vargic\u2019s Miscellany of Curious Maps [Amazon, Bookshop]. In this interview, Vargic talks about his various projects\u2014he\u2019s been… 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":[233],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1788820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-books","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":513340,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/a-book-roundup-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788820,"position":0},"title":"A Book Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 December 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Routledge Handbook Out last month, the expensive, 600-page\u00a0Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography\u00a0(Routledge). 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