{"id":1806593,"date":"2022-03-31T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1806593"},"modified":"2022-03-31T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:23:24","slug":"maps-and-literature-updates-two-exhibitions-and-an-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/maps-and-literature-updates-two-exhibitions-and-an-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps and Literature Updates: Two Exhibitions and an Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Osher\u2019s fantasy map exhibition, North of Nowhere, West of the Moon: Myth, Fiction, and Fantasy in Maps<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, is now online<\/a>\u2014though a number of the exhibition\u2019s maps are unavailable to view, I\u2019m guessing for copyright reasons<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> (previously<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Last month, MapLab<\/em>\u2019s Laura Bliss interviewed<\/a> the Huntington\u2019s curator of literary collections, Karla Nielsen, about the Huntington\u2019s Mapping Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/a> exhibition (previously<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The text of my article \u201cMaps in Science Fiction<\/a><\/strong>\u201d is now available online<\/a> (previously<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Osher\u2019s fantasy map exhibition, North of Nowhere, West of the Moon: Myth, Fiction, and Fantasy in Maps, is now online\u2014though a number of the exhibition\u2019s maps are unavailable to view, I\u2019m guessing for copyright… 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":[4,960],"tags":[50,31,447,644,645],"class_list":["post-1806593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","category-my-stuff","tag-exhibitions","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-osher","tag-science-fiction","tag-science-fiction-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3876,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/02\/fantasy-maps-exhibit-at-texas-am-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806593,"position":0},"title":"Fantasy Maps Exhibit at Texas A&M Library","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 February 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"An exhibition of fantasy maps,\u00a0Worlds Imagined: The Maps of Imaginary Places Collection, opens Friday at\u00a0Texas A&M University\u2019s Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. \"The maps included are part of an ongoing effort by [Texas A&M's] Maps and GIS [Library] and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection to develop a shared\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":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3373,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/the-british-library-on-fantasy-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806593,"position":1},"title":"The British Library on Fantasy Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 November 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"British Library curator Tom Harper writes about fantasy maps, which make up a major component of the Library's current exhibition, Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line\u00a0(previously). 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