A Typographic Literary Map of San Francisco, in a Puzzle
By Maria Popova
This week, I’m in San Francisco for the fantastic Pop Up Magazine, and what better time to dust off a thematic old favorite with a new twist? As a lover of maps in general and literary geography in particular, I was thrilled to learn that John McMurtrie’s fantastic 2009 typographic map of San Francisco literary geography, illustration by artist Ian Huebert, is now available as a jigsaw puzzle. And not just any jigsaw puzzle — a laser-cut wooden jigsaw puzzle.
With 152 pieces and several dozen authors, including Brain Pickings favorites Jack Kerouac, Mark Twain, Philip K. Dick, and John Steinbeck, the cartographic-typographic puzzle is a beautifully designed treat for the lit geek in your life, or in your heart.
The complete list of authors and works:
- Alice Adams (Second Chances, 1988)
- Isabel Allende (Daughter of Fortune, 1999)
- Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969)
- Gertrude Atherton (The House of Lee, 1940)
- Albert Benard de Russailh (Last Adventure, 1851)
- Ambrose Bierce (The Death of Halpin Frayser, 1891)
- Herb Caen (Herb Caen’s San Francisco, 1957)
- Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 1968)
- Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 2000)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Dog, 1958)
- Allen Ginsberg (Sunflower Sutra, 1956)
- Andrew Sean Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli, 2004)
- Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon, 1930)
- Robert Hass (Bookbuying in the Tenderloin, 1967)
- Bob Kaufman (No More Jazz at Alcatraz)
- Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men, 1980)
- Jack Kerouac (On the Road, 1957)
- Gus Lee (China Boy, 1991)
- Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City, 1978)
- Czeslaw Milosz (Visions From San Francisco Bay, 1975)
- Alejandro Murguia (The Medicine of Memory, 2002)
- Frank Norris (McTeague, 1899)
- Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49, 1968)
- Ishmael Reed (Earthquake Blues, 1988)
- William Saroyan (The Living and the Dead, 1936)
- John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley in Search of America, 1961)
- George Sterling (The Cool, Grey City of Love, 1920)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (Arriving in San Francisco, 1879)
- Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club, 1989)
- Michelle Tea (Valencia, 2000)
- Hunter S. Thompson (The Great Shark Hunt, 1964)
- Mark Twain (Early Rising, As Regards Excursions to the Cliff House, 1864)
- Sean Wilsey (Oh the Glory of It All, 2005)
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Published April 26, 2012
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/04/26/literary-map-of-san-francisco-puzzle/
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