Even More Reviews of Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
		Using cartography as a lens through which to view the craft of writing, Turchi charts a fascinating path from the writings of Ptolemy to the work of Nabokov, from the shores of Circe's Aegean isle to the most recent representations of subway routes.         --Emily Lodish            NY Arts Magazine    Peter Turchi's Maps of the Imagination is the extended disco version of a brilliant metaphor: how the work of writing resembles that of map-making drawn out in delicous illustrations and the serious, yet playful, tone of a genuinely thought-provoking lecture.  The metaphor is clever but, like maps themselves, it is also a useful tool, a way of examining our writing for the places were we might push on the borders of our imaginaiton, and the imagined constraints of narrative form...It's a complex discussion but Turchi maps it out, for lack of a better word, elegantly and with a sense of playfulness.  And in the end that seems to be the book's message:  Like a good map, the books inspire us to adventure, to seek out the spaces in our imagination that read "there be dragons" and playfully attempt the journey.         --Susan Pagani           San Antonio Current        An entertaining and thought provoking read for cartography buffs, and even more so for anyone interested in the art and craft of creative writing.       --Joel Kovarsky           The Portolan
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