Peter Turchi takes the art and act of writing as an irresistible analog for the art and the act of living. His work is part of a long tradition of fascination with processes of writers and he is among the masters at relating that process in a way that reaches all domains of society. For anyone who has ever thought about writing - the craft of it, its centrality in the human experience, its analog for life itself - this conversation is for you.

Show Notes:

• How he began writing (04:30)
• Dealing with rejection (12:00)
• Richard Russo writer (18:00)
• Maps of the Imaginations: The Writer as Cartographer (18:30)
• The Power of Maps by Dennis Woods (21:30)
  • Other brilliant books on maps
• Jorge Luis Borges (19:00)
• Origins - Melanie Mitchell (28:30)
• Lisa Feldman Barrett (28:45)
• The Atlas of Cyberspace by Rob Kitchin (29:30)
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (30:15)
• Origins - Giorgia Lupi (31:20)
• Origins - Matt Russo (31:30)
• MFA Program at Warren Wilson (34:40)
• Productivity-driven culture (38:15)
• Alison Gopnik - Explore/Exploit paradigm (41:30)
• Charles Ritchie artist (45:30)
• E.O. Wilson - “A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree” (46:40)
• A Muze and a Maze (46:00)
• The Book of Sand by Borges (51:30)
• Joan Dideon “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear” 
• Peter's daily routine (53:45)
• Lightning round (58:00):
  • Book: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 
  • Passion: Music
  • Making heart sing: Sonoran Desert
• Find guest online:
  • http://www.peterturchi.com/
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Peter’s playlist