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Chabon on his MFA, me on his (and Turchi book) image

Michael Chabon talks about the real value, perhaps, of his MFA program.

The familiarity of his website’s [header] image struck me, looking as similar as it does to the book jacket image of Pete Turchi’s Maps of the Imagination (The Writer as Cartographer), a book that’s been on my desk right here since it came out two years ago. It is an arresting image, after all.

Screenshots, for the heck of it, or because I, too, very much like the colorful phrenology images and will thus take advantage of the opportunity to beautify my page. The one more Italian in appearance (in keeping with history of/early cartography) — the second — is from the Turchi book (which, I’ve of course written about elsewhere and could go on about again, at length, but won’t other than to say if you haven’t already, read it!)

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