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In this author interview, I speak with Andrew DeGraff, a freelance illustrator and artist living and working in Maine. He graduated from Pratt Institute’s Communications Design program and returned to teach there from 2009 to 2014. His gallery work has been shown in cities around the world including New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Calgary, Mexico City, and the Philippines. He published his book Plotted: A Literary Atlas in 2015 and he joins me today to talk about his book, Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies.  

Listen to hear what exactly a Cinemap is, how long it takes to make a single map, and what some of the challenges are in putting together these unique pieces of art.
 
Books mentioned in this episode include:

• The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Culture Series by Ian Banks
• The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Films mentioned in this episode include:

• The Goonies directed by Richard Donner
• Raiders of the Lost Ark directed by Steven Spielberg
• Star Wars directed by George Lucas
• Guardians of the Galaxy directed by James Gunn
• Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller
• Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang
• King Kong directed by Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
• The Wizard of Oz directed by Victor Fleming
• The Conversation directed by Francis Ford Coppola
• The Third Man directed by Carol Reed
• Star Trek (2009) directed by J. J. Abrams
• The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick
• The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day directed by James Cameron
• There Will be Blood directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Point Break directed by Kathryn Bigelow
• Se7en directed by David Fincher
• Fargo directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
• Back to the Future directed by Robert Zemeckis
• High and Low by Akira Kurosawa
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
• Lord of the Rings directed by Peter Jackson

Also mentioned in this episode:

• David Rumsey Map Database